Arts (English Medium) Class 11 - CBSE Question Bank Solutions for English Elective - NCERT

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.

Notice these words in the poem and guess their meaning from the context

While tribal communities may not seem to possess the scientific temper,there are many ideas from tribal conventions that could enrich modern societies.

How does 'A Munda song' show that the perspective of the tribal mind towards the girl child is different from that of [other ] mainstream communities?