Model English Note -16 for PGT , TGT and Other Competitive Examinations
Difficulty Level: Graduation Time: 2hr
Each Question: Word Limit: 30
1.
What are the two senses in Wordsworth's Lucy becomes insulated against the ‘touch of
earthly years’?
Ans- In A Slumber did my Spirit Seal we find
a contrast between the two senses. In the first stanza ‘she could not feel/ the
touch of earthly years’ because she seemed divine and immortal. But in the
second stanza, one in her grave, she still does not feel the touch of 'earthly
years’ for like rocks and stones, she is only the subject of beloved earth.
2. What is called an ode?
Ans- The ode is a lyrical poem
which expresses exalted or enthusiastic emotion in respect of a theme which is
dignified, and it does so in a metrical from which is as a rule complex or
irregular. In broader sense it is a ceremonious song with one dignified theme.
3. Comment on Ode To Autumn as a
nature poem.
Ans- This ode is characteristically
Greek in spirit, Keats exhibits a delight in the small homely tings of nature without
any tinge of melancholy or intellectual restlessness. Here is nature herself in
all her richness. There is scented landscape in the first stanza, the eternal
labors of men in the central verse and the symphony of natural sounds in third
stanza.
4. My heart aches- Why does the poet’s
heartache?
Ans- The mood of Keats’
Nightingale is the poet’s secret melancholy contrasted with the free “full through-ted” ease and joyousness of the immortal songster. Thus the heart of poet
aches owing to the pain involved in transitory world.
Ans- The
‘wet Wind’ ever restyle and moving like Shelly himself, is symbolic of his
faith in the future emancipation of mankind, of regeneration following close
the heels of destruction. Likewise the skylark is symbolic of his hopefulness
for the emancipation of mankind, through the effort of poet-prophets.
6. Why did yeast mention the exact
number of swarm in his poem?
Ans- Yeats in setting the exact
number of swans is hyperbolic. Thus the statement is to be taken an emotional,
romantic outburst of a poet who is much in financed by the brilliant,
mysterious beauty of swans at cooled park.
7. What is the locale of the poem
Ulysses? How is it described?
Ans- The
locale of the poem is Ithaca. It is the home for Ulysses and his son Telemachus. The secluded Ithaca is a habitat of rugged people, uncivilized yet
prudent. Further they the place and the people is a sharp contrast with Ulysses
desire of expedition.
8. How did the speaker draw his
beloved in The Last Ride Together?
Ans- The beloved drawn in The
Last Ride Together is passive and remain silent thought out the poem. The theme
of the poem is frustrated love and the ladylove rejected the love of the
speaker. But she has consented the ride with the lover in due respect for the
love.
9. Write a note on Lamb’s
autobiographical element in Dream Children.
Ans- This
is autobiographical essay. Lamb is richly endowed with love for children and
his sweet heart as well as for the fireside joys, but adverse circumstances
compelled him to remain a bachelor all his life. Here he tells us about his
sweetheart Ann Simmons. The sweet bitter memory of his grandmother and brother
john comes too in his mind.
10. What reasons do you find
behind Mrs. Thurlow’s unmentioned attitude towards her life?
Ans- Mrs
Thurlow in her relentless persuasion after money for the better future of her
some, becomes mechanical and unemotional. Her ungrudging hardship and rigidity
its once painful and beast-like.
11. How did coke son behave with
Falder?
Ans- The
managing clerk in the solicitor’s firm is a generous minded person having
sympathy for the real of morality. Towards Falder he is kind enough in his
distress but he does not sanction the relation of Ruth and Falder by any mean.
12. Write a note on plot
construction of the play She Stoops to Conquer.
Ans- The
plot of the play is admirable. It is compact and well- knit. It has life,
monument, and variety. It follows the dramatic construction’s rules. It has exposition,
complication of situation and climax. With Marlow-Kate main plot and Hashing- Neville sub plot the
play is structurally superb.
13. Write short notes on Ernani ,
Byronism.
Ans- Eranani: It is an opera by It alien
composer Gineppi Verdi. Raina mentions that of Ernani to impress Bluntschli
that their family is well cultured. Byronism: The study and followers of Byron,
the romantic poet s called Byronism.
14. Use the following words in
sentences along with their meaning: acumen, flamboyant.
Ans-
Acumen (intelligence): The acumen of ancient Greek scholars still surprises us
great.
Flam boy ant (disquiet): The flam boy
ant altitude of the college students surprised the teachers.
15. What are adjectives of the
following words: faith, educate, fiend, gild
Ans- Faithful, educable/ educative. Fiendish, gold
16. Form two phrasal verbs on the
verb ‘fall’ and use them is sentences.
Ans- Fall
about (laugh uncontrollable): The fell about when their father danced on
irregular steps.
Fall
across (meet by chance) The Two rivals fell across in a bar.
17. Fill in the blanks with
appropriate collective nosy:
(a) a_____ of cattle’s.(b) a ____
of horses. (c) a ____ of arrows. (c) a ___ of arrows. (d) a ___ of
mountains
Ans- (a)
drove (b)troop (c) valley (d) chain
18. What are difference in
meaning of allusions and illusions?
Ans-
‘Allusion’ means to ‘refer indirectly’.
Exp- T.S. Eliot’s the waste Land is replete
with Biblical allusion.
“illusions’
means ‘deception’ or delusion’ ‘mirage’
Exp- 1. His
lack of decision makes his life full of illusions.2. Mirage in the desert is an
illusion of eyesight.
19. What are the called adverbs
of Frequency? Give examples.
Ans-
Words like ‘usually’, ‘always’, ‘never’ ,’often’, ‘sometimes’ seldom and
generally are called Adverbs of Frequency; the refer to the frequency of an
action.
For Example- 1. He always wears spectacles to
read the newspaper. 2. I never drink brandy.
Instead
of single word, an adverbial phrase can also be used to show frequency. But
such adverbial phrase o frequency must be used at the end of the Comas or sentiment
Exp-
1. I read Bible everyday. 2. I visit them once in a while.
20. When is the passive voice
used?
Ans- We sees
passive voice when we want to emphasize the recipient or sufferer of the action
rather than the doer or agent. The agent can however be omitted altogether
(along with by) when it is unknown or unimportant or unnecessary.
Exp- (1) the new library was inaugurated by
the vice president.
However, the agent can often be omitted as insentience-
(2)
some of the boxed were never opened at all.
(3) Partha was taken to see the
Nag temple at Mulkindanga.
21. Complete the following table
Noun
verb
Adj
Adv
Persuasiveness Persuade Persuasive Persuasively
Destruction Destroy Destructive Destructively
Philosophy Philosophize Philosophical Philosophically
Interest Interest Interested /
Interesting Interestingly
22. Give the antonyms of the
following words.
Words Antonyms
Increase Decrease
Normal Abnormal
Partial Impartial
Resistance I resistance
Sufficient Insufficient
Truth
False
Understanding Misunderstanding
23. Distinguish between the words
given below and use, then in sentences: literary
Ans- ‘Literate’ means a person who has the ability of reading and
writing
Exp-
(1) Most of the villagers are literate. (2) Only the literate person has the
access of worldly wisdom.
On the
hand, ‘literary’ means ‘relative to literature’.
Exp- (1) it is hard to understand a poem
without literary knowledge. (2) A student of literature must possess a good
literary dictionary.
24. The instant made eternity-
Who is wishing and what is the wishing eternity?
Ans- The lover in The Last Ride Together is optimistic and even though
he is rejected by his beloved he souses a grand success in his last ride with
the beloved. The lover in the quoted lines wishes that the present moment of
riding with the beloved may become everlasting. Earlier with the expresses a
thought that offer their death in the heavenly state they will have enjoyed the
bliss of love. But now the lover urges that the present earthly living and the
present moment of horse coding is itself a heavenly experience. Thus it the
moment is spiritualized it would be a heaven on earth.
25. What is the romantic
character of the poem Ode To A Nightingale?
Ans- The Ode to Nightingale is a
highly romantic poem. Is romanticism is due to its rice sensuous note of
intense desire, its deep melancholy, its suggestiveness, its sweet music and
its fresh and original phrases. Thatch of supernatural mystery is also added
somewhere. But most notably the description of nature and idealization of
Nightingale as a bird of joy and happiness and an embodiment of art is also a
romantic trait.
26. Compare and contrast the
words- Adapted and Adopted.
Ans-
‘Adapted' means to modify or to adjust to something: to become, or make somebody or something become,
used to a new environment or different conditions.
The title of
James novel Ulysses is adapted from Homer’s epic Odyssey.
They
no child of their own, so they adopted a neighbor’s son.
27. Rewrite the sentences
correctly according to the requirements of standard written English.
(a) A catalog of courses and requirements
often baffle students.
(b) None of the funds was reserved
for emergencies.
Ans-
The correct from of sentence would be ‘A catalog of courses and requirements
often baffles students.’ The subject ‘catalog’ is singular so the verb has to
be singular. 'Courses’ and requirements’ are both plural, but they are not the
subject of the sentence. The conjunction ‘and’ often misleads us. ‘And’
indicates more than one item, but in this case it links items that do not
constitute the subject of the sentence.
In the second sentence there are exceptions.
None usually takes singular verb. In this case, the plural ‘were’ is required
because the noun ‘funds’ is plural.
28. What are errors in the
following sentences and reuse them correctly.
(a) He as
well as his parents are going.
(b) He you and I are going to the market.
Ans- In the first sentence, as more than one subject is rounded with as
well as than the verb should be according to the first subject. So the correct
sentence would be – (a) He as well a his parents is going.
In the second sentence the order of the
pronouns should be second person, third person and first person. So, the
correct sentence would be- (b) you, he and I are going to the market.
29. Give plural forms of the
following compound nouns: Father-in-law, commander-in-chief, chief minister,
man killer, and woman hater.
Ans- Plural
forms: Fathers-in-law, commanders-in-chief, chief ministers, man killers, and
woman haters.
30. Wright a short Para on either
of the saying ‘Grasp all’ ‘Lose all’ or ‘justice delayed is justice denied’
Ans- ' ‘ Grasp all’ ‘Lose all’
This saying tell us in a brief
and witty way that of we begin to run after many things at the same
time, fix many targets or have many ambition, we may not achieve anything at
all. It, therefore, gives a sagacious advice that we should fix. Our targets
and cultivate our ambitions after carefully taking into consideration all the
fats and circumstances of the case.
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