1.
1.
· Gratiano,
· Lorenzo,
Bassanio
2.
2.
· Oracles
are people who receive messages from God and communicates to the common people.
· They
are found in Greece
· When
they speak with authority, others should listen without asking any questions.
3.
3.
· Gratiano
· I
consider the world only as a stage.
· My
role is a sad one
4.
4.
· Lorenzo
would become dumb as Gratiano doesn’t allow him to speak
· Gratiano
replied that if Lorenzo accompanied him for two more years,
· He
will not be able to recognize the sound of his own voice.
5.
5.
Gratiano
engages in idle talk, much more than any other man in Venice
His
speech is like two grains of wheat hidden in two bushels
You
may spend whole day to find them
When
you find them, you find them not worth the search.
Question II
1. To
be late
Doves of Venus fly ten times faster when
they are going to win over a new love.
Than love already established.
2. His
business engagements made him late
When his friends plan to steal a wife, he
will for them/ do the same.
3. A casket full of jewels and precious stones
She was dressed like a page boy
A torch bearer
4. Wise,
beautiful and truthful
5. Who
rises from a meal as hungry as when he sits down to eat?
Which horse returns with the same energy
after a race?
Joy is more when a dream is chased and
than the joy felt when it is attained.
A ship never returns in the same shape and
condition after its voyage
Question
3
1. Robert
Southey, long narrative poem which tells a story, a, a, b, b
2.
The
abbot of Aberbrothok placed the Inchcape Bell on the Rock.
He did it so that
no ship hits the rock and perishes.
From this action,
one can conclude that the Abbot of Aberbrothok was a kind man who thought about
others (altruistic) and did things to help others.
3.
The
Inchcape Bell was placed on the rock in such a manner that it would float and
swing over the waves whenever there is a storm.
The bell would
thus provide a warning to the mariners that there is the Inchcape Rock and
would help them in locating it so that the ship does not hit the rock and
perish.
4.
The
phrase “The buoy of the Inchcape Bell” means “the anchored float” (showing
navigable) above the Inchcape Rock where the bell was placed.
It looked like “a
darker speck” amidst the wide sea; it was like a darker patch.
The term “the
ocean green” suggests the wide ocean which seems to be green in colour.
5.
The
poem, The Inchcape Rock, teaches a moral lesson- As you sow, so shall you reap.
A poem with a moral theme is called a didactic poem. The poem proves the
principle that crime gets its own punishment. The Rover, cuts off the bell to
peeve the good Abbot and the other helpless sailors but in the end he falls
into his own laid trap.
Remorse and
regrets later overtake him but it was too late already.
Question 4
1.
Micheal
Mack
The phrase “scores
of figures” refers to the dead bodies of soldiers.
The image of
battle field where many people have wasted their lives comes to mind with the
phrase “scores of figures”.
2.
The
soldier boy is asking for help as he is in immense pain.
He is asking for
help to the narrator of the poem.
The soldier boy
asked for some water.
3.
The
phrase “Asian dirt” refers to the Vietnam War as Michael Mack was a Vietnam War
veteran.
Yes, instead of
the word “Asian” we can use any other word which refers to any war. We can do
so as the poem is universal and talks about the state and suffering of soldiers
which is true of every war throughout the world.
4.
The
soldier boy considers himself luckier as all the other soldiers of his troop
are dead, whereas he has just survived with a pain in his chest.
No, he is not
lucky at all. He is not lucky as he eventually succumbs to death because of the
bullet that has hit his chest.
The rest are the
other soldiers of his troop, his companions.
5.
“Deep
craters” are depressions on the ground.
These depressions,
as described in the poem, are created by the bomb shelling. The significance of
the craters is that it shows the horror of warfare and the waste it is. The
deep craters symbolically also suggest how warfare is a big depression for
humanity at large.
Question 5
1. Ms
Reeta Baruah, students were excited, all the students completed the assignment
2. Ajith
Basu, Gayathri Chhbra, Sanjay Damle
3. Hands
shook, beads of perspiration appeared on his forehead, he was not used to face
the entire class speak out aloud, didn’t have a flair for speech
4. 2007,
31,Gajendra Singh
5. Rose
as one, applauded and cheered
She
knew that her children would become the
pillars that would uphold the virtues of peace, tolerance and selflessness
Question
6
Premchand’s
short story “God Lives in the Panch” is written when the colonial British were
ruling India. Premchand, through the story is criticizing the judicial system
of the British saying that Indians
already
have a rural judicial system (Panchayat) where impartial enquiry and judgements
are already prevalent. When one is placed as a Panch or as the head of the
Panch, he forgets about his earthly ties and give judgment only according to
the norms of morality, legality and ethics. Panchayat is a system of
administration of the rural India where the elected or selected representatives
of the village take decisions for the development and day to day running of the
village. Even while there are disputes in the villages, the villagers approach
the Panchayat for immediate remedial measures. Both Jumman and Alagu went to
the Panchayat with their problems/disputes, both of them also served as the
head-panch. When they were head-panch they decided in favour of the right/the
righteous/the good as at that moment, while one is the head-panch doing
justice, one is like a God delivering judgments with impartiality. Thus
Premchand tries to show through the short story how both the frieds did not let
any relathionship matter to them when they sat as the head-panch. The role of
Panchayat is to deliver justice and one needs to be god-like in delivering
justice.
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