Science (English Medium) इयत्ता ११ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

How do these lines capture the essence of the story:

'Glory was all overlaid with dark shame. Glory was dead.'

Considering that this is an excerpt from a lecture, how does the commentary provided by the speaker string the arguments together?

Although the author was not a vindictive man he was very happy to see the twenty-one stone lady

who had impoverished him twenty years ago, and says he had finally had his revenge. What makes him say this?

The Cloud ‘fuses together a creative myth, a scientific monograph, and a gay picaresque tale of cloud adventure':  explain.

How do the words in bold, in the lines below, illustrate the poet’s ability to convey criticism cryptically?
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous forms of things:
We murder to dissect.

Explain the contradiction in the similies, ‘Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb’.

The author is a humorist

a. How does the story reflect his sense of humour?

b. What makes his lady friend remark - 'You are quite a humorist'?

c. Give instances of the author's ability to laugh at himself.

Explain the metaphor in the line: ‘Poets are  the mirrors of gigantic shadows that futurity casts on the present’.

People with foibles are often not conscious of them.

Identify the common characteristics shared by tribal communities all over the world.

What distinguishes the tribal imagination from the secular imagination?

How does G. N. Devy bring out the importance of the oral literary tradition?

List the distinctive features of the tribal arts.

'New Literature' is a misnomer for the wealth of the Indian Literary tradition. How does G. N. Devy explain this?

Discuss the following in pairs or in groups of four:
'It is time to realise that unless we modify the established notion of literature as something written, we will silently witness the decline of various Indian oral traditions'

Discuss the following in pairs or in groups of four:
“Tribal arts are not specifically meant for sale.” Does this help or hamper their growth and preservation?

Discuss the following in pairs or in groups of four:
Because India's tribal communities are basically bilingual there is a danger of dismissing their languages as dialects of India's major tongues.