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

Some words in the poem are related to different parts of a ship or a mariner’s life. Given below is the meaning of those terms. Identify the word.

Another name for a ship

Some words in the poem are related to different parts of a ship or a mariner’s life. Given below is the meaning of those terms. Identify the word.

Sinking sound

Write information about Ballad. 

Select the appropriate figure of speech from the box given below and complete the table.

Compose 4 to 6 lines on ‘sea’.

Pick out the describing words from the poem and add a noun of your own. One is done for you.

Match the words given in column A with their meaning in column B.

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.