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Read the Following Extract and Do the Given Activities:

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Question

Read the following extract and do the given activities: 
A1. Match the following: 

        'A'                'B'
i. Infant a. Act like the pard 
ii. Schoolboy b. Mewling and puking
iii. Lovers c. Whining 
iv. Solider d. Sighing like furnace 


 All the world’s a stage
 And all the men and women merely players;
 They have their exits and their entrances,
 And one man in his time plays many parts,
 His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
 Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
 Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
 And shining morning face, creeping like snail
 Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
 Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
 Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
 Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
 Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
 Seeking the bubble reputation
 Even in the cannon’s mouth 


A2. Complete the following table: 

Stages of man             Role Qualities/Action
First    
Second    


A3. All the world’s stage: 
a. Alliteration
b.  Metaphor
c. Simile
(Choose the correct answer from the given options and explain the chosen figure of
speech) 

Answer in Brief
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Solution

A1

        'A'                'B'
i. Infant b. Mewling and puking
ii. Schoolboy c. Whining 
iii. Lovers d. Sighing like furnace 
iv. Solider a. Act like the pard 

A2

Stages of man             Role Qualities/Action
First Infant Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. 
Second Schoolboy his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school

A3
Metaphor 
Metaphors show up in literature, poetry, music, and writing, but also in speech. Often, you can use a metaphor to make your subject more relatable to the reader or to make a complex thought easier to understand.

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2018-2019 (July) Set 1

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Match the approximate ages with the stages.

No. Age-group   Stages
1 Birth to 2 years a teenage/adolescence
2 3 years to 12 years b old age/second childhood
3 13 years to 17 years c middle-age
4 18 years to about 44 years d babyhood/infancy
5 About 45 years to 60 years e senior citizen/elderly person
6 65 years up to 75 to 80 years f adulthood
7 Above 80 years g childhood

Write down in your own words the difference between the following stages of a man’s life.

2nd stage and the 4th


Pick out lines that contain Imagery (a picture created in the mind by using word) of the following people.

School boy (2nd stage)


Think and write on your own.

What is the theme/central idea of this poem?


Think and write on your own.

Which two stages of man, described by Shakespeare, sound humorous? Say why.


Read the poem again and write an appreciation of the poem in a paragraph format.


Read the following poem and write an appreciation of it with the help of the given points in a paragraph format: 

All the World’s a Stage

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and breaded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. The last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and more oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

- William Shakespeare

Points:

  1. The title and the poet of the poem   (01)
  2. Rhyme scheme   (01)
  3. Figures of speech   (01)
  4. Central Idea/Theme   (02)

(A1) Identify the stages in man’s life from the given description and complete the table:      (2)

  Actions Stage
i. Full of strange oaths _________
ii. Creeping like a snail _________
iii. Sighing like furnace _________
iv. Having fair round belly _________
 
All the World’s a Stage
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
 

(A2) Write down the similarities between the first and the 7th (last) stage of man’s life:     (2)

(A3) Choose the correct alternative to identify the figure of speech used in the following line:     (1)

All the world’s a stage...

  1. Simile
  2. Metaphor
  3. Personification
  4. Alliteration

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