HSC Arts (English Medium) 12th Standard Board Exam - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions

There are a few examples of homonyms in the poem. For example ‘spoke’. List homonyms from the poem and give their meanings.

The poet has used different poetic devices like Alliteration and Interrogation in the poem. Identify them and pick out the lines.

The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is ‘aabb’. Find the rhyme scheme of other stanzas

Write a set of 8 to 10 interview questions to be asked to a social worker. Take the help of the following points.

• Childhood
• Education
• Service
• Difficulties
• Future plans
• Achievements
• Message

Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:

Father’s attire

Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:

Father’s tea

Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:

Father’s footwear

Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:

Father’s food

Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:

Father’s eyesight

‘Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night’.

In the above line, the weather is humid, not the night. The epithet or adjective is transferred from the weather to the night. This figure of speech is Transferred Epithet. Find out another such expression from the poem.

Identify and write the lines from the poem which express the following figures of speech.

I see him drinking weak tea, Eating a stale chapati.

Here ‘stale chapati’ stands for stale food/non-nourishing food or diet, where the part symbolizes the whole, i.e. food. Guess the name of the figure of speech.

Identify the rhyme scheme of all the stanzas of the poem.

A contraction is a shortened version of the written and spoken forms of the word, syllable or word groups created by omission of internal letters and sounds. Find out the instances of contractions from the poem.

Find out from the poem example of Simile.

Find out from the poem example of Metaphor.

Find out from the poem example of Alliteration.

Find out from the poem example of Personification.

Find out from the poem example of Antithesis.

Read the expression ‘a sad wreath of tuberoses’. ‘Is the wreath sad?’ Explain the figure of speech.