XII Assignment No 02

 

 

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   XII ENGLISH                       ASSIGNMENT NO 02                      Marks: 20

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Q.1 (A) Read the given extract and completes the activities given below:   (16)

 

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,

Healthy, free, the world before me,

The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.

 

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need

Nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous

Criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

 

The earth, that is sufficient,

I do not want the constellations any nearer,

I know they are very well where they are,

I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

 

(Still here I carry my old delicious burdens,

I carry them, men and women, I carry them with me wherever

I go, I swear it is impossible for me to get rid of them,

I am fill’d with them, and I will fill them in return.)

 

A1 Pick out the two lines which describe the phrase ‘good fortune’.                                                        (02)

1) …………………………………………………………………….

2) …………………………………………………………………….

A2    ‘Still here I carry my old delicious burdens’ Give reasons for this statement.                                               (02)

A3   Name and explain figure of speech used in the following line.                                                              (02)

‘The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose’

A4    Express your own views regarding the following line.                                                                              (02)

‘Song of the open road’

A5     Compose four lines on ‘Journey of life’. by using rhyming word.                                                         (02)

A6     Pick up two examples of “Inversion”                                                                                                             (02)

A7    What is Free Verse Explain?                                                                                                                                (02)

A8    Describe your ‘road of life’.                                                                                                                              (02)

 

(B) Appreciation:                                                                                                                                                            (04)

Read the above given poem given extract and write a poetic appreciation of the poem with help of

the following points.

• About the poet and the title

• The theme

• Language/ poetic devices used in the poem

• Special features

• Your opinion about the poem

 

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XII ENG ASSIGNMENT 1 20 MARKS

 

 

Assignment-1                              2021-2022                                            Marks:20

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A1. Read the extract and complete the activities given below:(12)

Punctually at midday, he opened his bag and spread out his professional equipment, which consisted of a dozen cowrie shells, a square piece of cloth with obscure mystic charts on it, a notebook and a bundle of Palmyra writing. His forehead was resplendent with sacred ash and his eyes sparkled with a sharp abnormal gleam which was really an outcome of a continual searching look for customers, but which his simple clients took to be a prophetic light and felt comforted. The power of his eyes was considerably enhanced by their position-placed as they were between the painted forehead and the dark whiskers which streamed down his cheeks: even a half-wit’s eyes would sparkle in such a setting. To crown the effect he wound a saffron-coloured turban around his head. This colour scheme never failed.People were attracted to him as bees are attracted to cosmos or dahlia stalks. He sat under the boughs of a spreading tamarind tree which flanked a path running through the Town Hall Park. It was a remarkable place in many ways. A surging crowd was always moving  up and down this narrow road from morning till night. A variety of trades and occupations was represented all along its way: medicine sellers of stolen hardware and junk, magicians, and above all, an auctioneer of cheap cloth, who created enough din all day to attract the whole town. Next to him in vociferousness came a vendor of fried groundnut, who gave his ware a fancy name each day, calling it “Bombay Ice Cream” one day and on the next “Delhi Almond”, and on the third “Raja’s Delicacy,” and so on and so forth, and people flocked to him.

A1. Complete the web with the professional equipment mentioned in the extract.                                                             (2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A2 .Describe the market place in 50 words.                                                                                                                                   (2)

A3. The prophet made special arrangements to attract people. Find its proof from the extract.                                        (2)

A4. Write in 50 words about the career you like to choose in your life.                                                                                    (2)

 

 

A5. Do as Directed:                                                                                                                                                                              (2)

a)      This colour scheme never failed. (Make affirmative without changing the meaning.)

b)      To crown the effect, he wound a saffron-coloured turban around his head. (Make compound sentence.)

A6. Match the words given in column ’A’ with their meanings given in ‘B’.                                                     (2)

Column A                  Column B 1)      Punctually a)      Unclear 2)      Remarkable b)      Holy 3)      Obscure c)       Striking 4)      sacred d)      at the proper time

 

A2.Do as Directed:                                                                                                                                                 (8)

a)      Or let autumn fall- silencing bird on tree. (Identify the figure of speech.)

b)      They found the boy. He was very weak. (Combine the sentences using an appropriate conjunction.)

c)       the mother said to her son come into the kitchen I shall give you something to eat.                                                       (Punctuate the following sentence.)

d)      i) Spend              ii)  Lend        (Write the Past Participles of the given words.)

e)      He is not clever. (Add a Question Tag.)

f)       The boy said,”How happy I am.”(Change the speech)

g)      English is taught to us by Mr. Robert. (Change the Voice.)

h)      The doctor must come at once or the patient may die.(Make it Complex.)