SSC (English Medium) 8th Standard - Maharashtra State Board Question Bank Solutions for English

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What could be the age group of the speaker in the poem?

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What is the difference between a hawker and a shopkeeper?

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How do parents react when they see children soil their clothes in dust and heat?

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Why is the street light compared to a one-red-eyed-giant?

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What exactly does the speaker in the poem crave for?

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Does the poet really wish to become a hawker/gardener/watchman? Justify your response.

Say why the speaker of the poem wishes to be a-

hawker

Say why the speaker of the poem wishes to be a -

 gardener

Say why the speaker of the poem wishes to be a -

watchman

Pick out one line that contains the following Figure of Speech.

Tautology

Explain the figure of speech tautology with example.

Explain the figure of speech inversion and anastrophe with example.

Write the Rhyming word and Scheme of the 1^st stanza.

A pilgrim, going a lone high way
Came at evening, cold and gray
To a chasm, deep and vast and wide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim.
The chasm held no fear for him.
But he paused when he reached the other side And built a bridge to span the tide.

Write the Rhyming word and Scheme of the 2^nd stanza.

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near,
“Why waste your time in building here?
Your journey ends with the close of the day You never again will pass this way.
You have crossed the chasm deep and wide Why build ye here at even tide?”

Write the Rhyming word and Scheme of the 3^rd stanza.

The pilgrim raised his old gray head,
“My friend in the path I’ve come,” he said, “There followeth after me today
A fair haired youth, who must pass this way. The chasm which held no fears for me
To the fair haired youth, may a pitfall be.
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim.
My friend, I am building this bridge for him.”

Pick out lines that contain Alliteration.

Some poets do not use uniformity in rhyming words, nor a steady rhythm. Such poems with no uniformity in rhyme, rhythm, length of lines or stanzas are called Free Verse. Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Rabindranath Tagore are some famous poets who have composed poems in Free Verse. 

A quick glance at the poem ‘Vocation' reveals that the style used by Tagore is Free Verse.

Now turn the pages of your textbook and see if you can find other poems in Free Verse.

Which pictures reflect gender equality? Write their numbers.

Study the pictures below and note down the differences.

Study the pictures below and note down the differences.