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Read the following passage and do the activities: A1. Complete the web diagram: [2] If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, work day and night for it,

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Question

Read the following passage and do the activities:     [5]

A1. Complete the web diagram:     [2]

If you want a thing bad enough
to go out and fight for it, work
day and night for it,
give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it
If all that you dream
and scheme is about it and life
seems useless and worthless without it
If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it and lose all
your terror of the opposition for it.
If you simply go after that thing that you want with all of
your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and
confidence and stern for tenacity
If neither cold poverty, famish or gout
or sickness or pain
of body and brain
can keep you away from the thing that you want,
If dogged and grim you be size and beget it,
with the help of GOD you’ll get it!

A2. Explain the line ‘with the help of God you’ll get it’.     [2]

A3. Pick out an example of tautology from the above extract.     [1]

Comprehension
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Solution

A1.

A2. This line suggests that while hard work, persistence, and personal strength are essential, achieving one’s ultimate goal often requires a deeper, spiritual support or “divine favor.” It implies that when an individual has exhausted every ounce of their own capacity and grit, success becomes an inevitable outcome when human effort aligns with higher purpose or providence.

A3. “useless and worthless”

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Chapter 3: Section 3: Poetry - ACTIVITY - SET 1 [Page 15]

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Chapter 3 Section 3: Poetry
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