Class test exams for XII---ALL POEMS AND LETTERS--

Answer the following questions                    1x15=15

1.       To whom does the poet compare his beloved?

2.      What is the main theme of the poem “Asleep in the Valley”?

3.      How does a tree grow?

4.      What is the Rhyme pattern of the poem “shall I compare thee”?

5.      In what thing keats finds the inspiration?

6.      What is the controlling simile in the poem “shall I compare thee”?

a) Summers day

b) Eternal summer

c)      Clouds

7.      In the poem “Asleep in the Valley” Which war is mentioned?

8.     What kind of poetry does the poet use to drive home the pity of war?

9.      How is a tree actually killed?

10.  "Not so much pain wiII do it.,,_ What does this line mean?

11.   'He sleeps in sunlight, one hand on his breast/At peace. ‘Why does the soldier lie in peace?

12.  What does the expression 'two red holes' indicate?

13.  On which bed does the pale soldier die?

14.  "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,!,What does the poet want to mean through this line?

15.   "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,,,What is meant by'the eye of heaven'?

16.  What does keats celebrate in the poem “The Poetry of Earth”?

17.   What kind of sonnet is the poem “The Poetry of Earth”?

18.  In what background is the poem written?

19.  What does the phrase 'earth-cave' indicate?

20. What was Rimbaud’s nationality?

B) Answer the following questions                                                  3x5=15                                             

1)      How does the poet Arthur Rimbaud describe the soldier?

2)     Look at the word “asleep”. When do we normally associate with the word? When does the reader recognized that the soldier is asleep in a different sense?

3)     How is growth of a tree described in Gieve patel,s ,On Killing a Tree,?

4)     How does the tree heal itself?

5)     State the arguments in the octave and the sestet?

6)     What does the poet compare this person to? Identify at least three qualities hat make person superior to the simile?

7)     How does the poet choose the sonnet from his poem? Give reasons.

8)    Identify the voices of poetry in the poem “the poetry of earth”?How does Keats establish continuity through these voices?

C. Writing

Write a newspaper report (in about 150 words) on a road accident using the following points : [Date and time – location – cause of the accident – persons injured – rescue work – blockade by local people – arrival of the police – normalcy restored.]     

Or,                                                                                  

As the proprietor of a business organization, write a letter to a reputed concern inviting the quotation of stationery goods.

NOTE:

[Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable .The figures in the margins indicate the full marks.]