WIND

-Subramaniya Bharti

Refrence to context:

1. Wind, come softly.

Don’t break the shutters of the windows.
Don’t scatter the papers.
Don’t throw down the books on the shelf.

Q1. How does a violent wind disturb and damage things?

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Q2. What request does the poet make to the wind?

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Q3. Which poetic devices have been used in these lines?

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Q4. Complete the following analogy

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2. There, look what you did – you threw them all down.
You tore the pages of the books.
You brought rain again.
You’re very clever at poking fun at weaklings.

Q1. What is the poet’s tone in the above lines?

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Q2. List the poetic devices used in the above stanza?

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[Link] does the wind symbolise?

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Q4. What kind of destruction does wind cause when it blows

hard?
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Q5. How does the wind deal with the weaklings?

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3. Frail crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters,
crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives,
crumbling hearts-
the wind god winnows and crushes them all.

Q1. Why are the houses, doors, rafters etc. crumbling?

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Q2. Explain the expression: “crumbling lives, crumbling

hearts”.
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Q3. Why has the wind been called ‘God’?

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Q4. What does the wind god do?

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Q5. Which poetic device has been used in the first three
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4. He won’t do what you tell him.
So, come, let’s build strong homes,
Let’s join the doors firmly.
Practice to firm the body.
Make the heart steadfast.
Do this, and the wind will be friends with us.

Q1what is the synonym of ‘steadfast’?

Ans: a) Irresolute
b) Steady
c) Hesitant
d) Inconstant

Q2. According to the poet, what preparations should be made

to face the fury of the wind?
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Q3. What is wind’s attitude towards people?

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Q4. Pick the poetic devices used in the stanza?

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 Road Not Taken ( Poem )
-Robert Frost

Reference To Context:

1) Two roads diverged in yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Q1. At which point had the poet reached? What problem does he
faces there?
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Q2. What is the mood of the poet?

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Q3. Find the word from the extract which means the same as
“branched out / separated”?
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Q4. List the figures of speech used in this stanza.

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2) Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Has worn them really about the same.

i) What does the poet mean by “just as fair”?

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ii) Why did the poet take the other road?

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iii) What do the given lines suggest about the speaker?

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iv) List the figures of speech used in this stanza.

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3. And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

Q1. Why was the poet doubtful about the first road?
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Q2. Find a word from the extract that means “crushed”.

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Q3. Explain “in leaves no step had trodden back”.

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Q4. List the figures of speech used in this stanza.

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4. I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Q1. What has made a lot of difference in poet’s life?
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Q2. Why did the poet take the road which was less travelled by?
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Q3. Which word from the extract means breathe out?
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Q4. List the figures of speech used in this stanza.

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 The Sound of Music (part 1)
Evelyn Glennie
-Deborah Cowely
Reference to context:
I. A slight girl, looking younger than her 17 years, was nervous
yet excited as she felt the vibrations of the approaching train.
It was her first day at the prestigious Royal Academy of music
in London and daunting enough for any teenager fresh from a
Scottish farm. But this aspiring musician phase the bigger
challenge than most:

a) What was likely to daunt the teenager?

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b) What do you understand by the expression “from a Scottish

farm”?
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c) What bigger challenge did she have to face?

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d) What does the word “proceed towards “from the passage
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II. It pours in through every part of my body. It tingles in the
skin, my cheek bones and even in my hair. By leaning against
the drums she can feel the resonances in her body.

a) Why does she have to sense music through different parts of

her body?
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b) How does the different parts of her body sense music?

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c) What does this statement shows the speaker’s character?

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d) What does the word ' vibration’ from the passage means?
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 THE SOUND OF MUSIC – BISMILLAH KHAN

-Deborah Cowely

REFRENCE TO CONTEXT

I. Few had thought that it would one day be revived. A barber of a

family of professional musicians, who had access to the royal
palace, decided to improve the tonal quality of the pungi.

(a) Why did the pungi need to be revived?

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(b) Why did the barber probably have interest in pungi?

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(c) Find the word from the passage which means “get into”.

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(d) After improving the tonal quality of pungi, it was renamed

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II. Despite this huge success in the celluloid world, Bismillah
Khan’s ventures in film music were limited to two: Vijay
Bhatt’s Gunj Uthi Shehnai and Vikram Srinivas’s Kannada
venture, Sanadhi Apanna. “I just can’t come to terms with the
artificiality and glamour of the film world, ” he says with
emphasis.

(a) What is meant by celluloid world? Why is it so called?

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(b) Which two characteristics of the film world did he dislike?

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(c) What do you learn about his character from this incident?

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(d) Find out a word from the passage which means “projects”.

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 Ch–1 THE LOST CHILD
(Mulk Raj Anand)

Reference to context:

I. He could not suppress the desire of his heart, even though he

well knew the cold stare of refusal in their eyes.

Q1. What ‘desire of his heart’ is being talked of?

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Q2. Why has the narrator said that ‘he’ couldn’t suppress his
heart’s desire?

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Q3. What did the child do when he couldn’t suppress his desire?

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Q4. What does the word refusal mean?

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II. His father looked at him red-eyed, in his familiar tyrant’s
way. His mother, melted by the free spirit of the day was
tender and, giving him her finger to hold, said, “Look, child,
what is before you!”

Q1. What made the father angry?

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Q2. What was the ‘free spirit of the day’ that made the mother
‘tender’?

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Q3. Why did the mother ask the child to look before him?

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Q4. Find the word from the passage that means cruel.

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III. The poor child struggled to thrust away between their feet
but, knocked to and fro by their brutal movements, he might
have been trampled underfoot, had he not shrieked at the
highest pitch of his voice.

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Q2. What was the child trying to do amidst the crowd?

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Q3. Why could the child have got trampled?

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Q4. Why did the child shriek?

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Q5. Give the antonym of the word shriek.

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(IV) “Will you have a ride on the horse?” he gently asked as he
approached the ring. The child’s throat tore into a thousand
shrill sobs and he only shouted, “I want my mother, I want
my father!”

Q1. Who is ‘he’ in the first line of the extract? Whom is ‘he’
offering a ride on the horse? Why?
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Q2. Why did the child’s throat ‘tore into a thousand shrill sobs’?
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Q3. Why did the child shout, “I want my mother, I want my
father!”?
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Q4. What does the word ‘shed tears’ from the above passage
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 The Fun They Had
-Isaac Asimov
Reference to context:
1. Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes “Because it's
not our kind of school, stupid .This is the old kind of school
that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago.” He added
loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, “centuries ago”.
Magie was hurt. Well, I don't know what kind of school they
had all that time ago.” She read the book over his shoulder
for a while, then said, Anyway they had a teacher.”
Sure they had a teacher but it wasn't regular teacher .It was a
man.

Q1. What was special in the old kind of school?

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Q2. Find the word from the passage which means “in a superior
way”.
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Q3. Tommy called Margie stupid

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Q4. What does regular mean here? What is “it” contrastred

with?
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2. “Gee”, said Tommy, what a waste. When you are through with
the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television
screen must have had million books on it and it's good for
plenty more. I wouldn’t throw it away.”
“Same with mine,” said Margie. She was eleven and hadn't
seen much telebooks as Tommy had. He was thirteen.

1. What is Tommy referring to waste?

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2. What sort of books did Margie and Tommy have in their

school?
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3. Find the word from the passage which means more than
sufficient.
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4. How was the book?

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3. Margie did so with a sigh. She was thinking about the old
schools they had when her grandfather's grandfather was little
boy. All the kids from the whole neighborhood came laughing
and shouting in the school yard, sitting together in the school
room, going home together at the end of the day. They learnt
the same things, so they could help one another with
homework and talk about it.

Q1. What did Margie do with a sigh?

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Q2. Which school is Margie thinking about in the above lines?

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[Link] the word from the passage which means “deep breath”
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Q4. From where she got to know about the old schools?
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4. He was a round little man with the red face and whole box of
tools with dials and wires. He smiled at Margie and gave her an
apple then took the teacher apart. Margie had hoped he
wouldn't know how to put it together again, but he knew how
all right and after an hour so there it was again, large and black
ugly with a big screen on which all the lessons were shown in
the questions were asked. That wasn't so bad. The part Margie
hated the most was the slot where she had to put the
homework and test papers.

Q1. Who was the round little man with the red face?
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Q2. Why was the Inspector called?

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Q3. Which part of school did Margie hated the most?

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Q4. Fill in the blanks:

Large big screens: Mechanical teacher
Books: _________________________________