TEST SERIES I (2022-23)

 TEST SERIES  I (2022-23)

Marks: 30                  English- 12^th Com                         Time: 1 Hour

(Reading for comprehension , language study, summary and mind mapping)

Q 1 A) Grammar:

 Do as directed:                                                                                                                             (04 Mks)

1) We can accept our life gracefully.

(Select the correct option using modal auxiliary showing 'compulsion')

a) We will accept our life gracefully.

b) We must accept our life gracefully.

c) We might accept our life gracefully.

d) We may accept our life gracefully.

Ans: We must accept our life gracefully.

2) Girl was cooking roots and tree leaves without Fire.

(Select the correct option to insert an appropriate article )

   a) Girl was cooking roots and tree leaves without the  Fire.

   b) A girl was cooking roots and tree leaves without the  Fire.

   c) The girl was cooking roots and tree leaves without  Fire.

   d) The girl was cooking roots and tree leaves without a Fire.

Ans:  The girl was cooking roots and tree leaves without a fire.

3) The students are solving the Activity Sheet.

(Begin the sentence with ‘The Activity Sheet….’)

Ans : The Activity Sheet is being solved by the students.

4) Spot the error.

C V Raman’s knowledges of all branches of physics are abnormal.

Ans : C V Raman's knowledge of all branches of Physics is abnormal.

Q1B) SUMMARY:

Read the extract and write a summary of the given extract with a suitable title.                  (04Mks)

My son starts school today. It is all going to be strange and new to him for a while and I wish you  would  treat him gently. It is an adventure that might take him across continents. All the adventures  probably  include wars, tragedy and sorrow. To live this life will require faith, love and courage .

So, dear teachers, will you please take him by his hand and teach him things he will have to know - but gently, if you can. Teach him that for every enemy, there is a friend. He will have to know that  all men are not just, that all men are not true. But teach him also that for every scoundrel  there  is a hero that for every crooked politician, there is a dedicated leader.

Teach him if you can that 10 cents earned is of far more value than a dollar found.  In school. teach him it is far more honourable to fall than to cheat. Teach him to learn how to gracefully lose, and enjoy winning when he does win.

Teach him to gentle with people, tough with tough people. Steer him away from envy if can and teach him the secret of quiet laughter. Teach him if you can- how to laugh when he is sad, teach him there is no shame in tears. Teach him there can be glory in failure and despair in success. Teach him to scoff at cynics.

Teach him if you can the wonders of books, but also give time to ponder the extreme mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun and flowers on a green hill. Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him they are wrong.

 Try to give my son strength not to follow the crowd when everyone else is doing it. Teach him to listen to everyone, but teach him also to filter all that he hears on a screen of truth and take only the good that comes through.

Teach him to sell his talents and brains to the highest bidder but never to put a price tag on his heart and soul. Let him have the courage to be impatient, let him have the patience to be brave. Teach him to have sublime faith in himself, because then he will always have sublime faith in mankind, in God. This is the order, teachers but see what best you can do. He is a nice little boy and my son. (Abraham Lincoln's Letter to His Son's Teacher)

Write a summary with the help of given clues –

Abraham Lincoln’s letter to the teacher – adventures – humanity – honesty – child tackle ups and down in life – book reading -  not to follow crowd – message – conclusion.

Ans : Abraham Lincoln has written this letter to his son's teacher. It is full of optimism and values he believed in.Instead of the adventures which are harmful to mankind, he requested her to teach him life values- trust, love, courage, humanity, honesty ,etc. It shows Lincoln's passion and zeal for learning.To nurture honour and character among the children is the purpose of education. He suggests the teacher to tell the students the importance of reading and good books. He also suggests not to follow crowd.Listen to everyone but filter the information on the screen of truth.Education is a potential tool for building up the all-round personality.

Q1C) Mind Mapping:                                                                                                                                     (04Mks)

 Develop a mind mapping frame/design using your own ideas to illustrate on the topic, " Auxiliary".

Tips for Mind Mapping:

I) Connect your thoughts or ideas using the title.

II) Use your own design/ format for branching.

III) Create minimum 2 or 3 main branches and its sub- branches excluding the title.

Ans:

Q2A) Read the given extract and complete the activity given below:                                      (10Mks)

'Can’t hear', said one, ' the breakers roar?

For me think we should be near the shore '.

'Now where we are I cannot tell,

But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell'.

 

They hear no sound, the swell  is strong;

Though the wind hath fallen they drift along,

Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock,

'O Christ ! It is the Inchcape Rock !'

 

Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair;

He curst himself in his despair;

The waves rush in every side,

The ship is sinking beneath the tide.

 

But even in his dying fear

 One dreadful sound could the Rover hear,

A sound as if with the Inchcape Bell,

The devil below was ringing his knell'.

A1) Name the two speakers from the first stanza and write what they are saying.                             (02)

Ans : Sailors of Sir Ralph's ship are speaking in the stanza. First sailor says that he can hear the roaring  of waves and it seems to him that shore is nearby. The second sailor who wishes that they can hear the sound of Inchcape  Bell as they are not aware of where they are.

A2) Explain the line, 'The Devil below was ringing his knell'.                                                            (02)

Ans : Sir Ralph had cut down the Inchcape Bell as he was jealous of  the Abbot of Aberbrothok.On the way back to home, his ship faced the storm and struck the Inchcape Rock. He cursed himself for his mistake and drowned.When his death came close to him he could hear the sound of Inchcape Bell as if the Devil himself was  ringing his death bell (knell) for him.

A3) "Evil cannot go unpunished in this world" write your opinion on this in about 50 words in the light of poem, "The Inchcape Rock".                                                                                                            (02)

Ans : It's true that evil cannot go unpunished in this world.I feel there is some divine power which observes our action and gives justice to all of us. By cutting the Inchcape Bell, Sir Ralph did the bad thing.Ultimately,he got punishment in the form of death as there was no warning bell ringing near the Inchcape Rock.Thus the poetice justice is given to Sir Ralph. Here, we remember the proverb 'As you sow, so shall you reap'.

A4) Poetic Device:

Write down the rhyme scheme and rhyming pairs of the last stanza.                                                   (02)

Ans : Rhyme scheme --aabb

Rhyming pairs -- fear - hear

                                 Bell - knell

A5) Poetic Creativity:

Read the following lines and compose the missing lines on your own and rewrite it.                          (02)

Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair;

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The waves rush in every side,

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 Ans : Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair;

Realising his mistake mere,

The waves rush in every side,

And he would be below the tide.

Q2B) Appreciation:                                                                                                                                 (04Mks)

Weavers, weaving at break of day,

Why do you weave a garment so gay ?...

Blue as the wing of a halcyon wild,

We weave the robes of a new-born child.

Weavers, weaving at fall of night,

Why do you weave a garment so bright?...

Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green,

We weave the marriage-veils of a queen.

Weavers, weaving solemn and still,

What do you weave in the moonlight chill...

White as a feather and white as a cloud,

We weave a dead man's funeral shroud.

Write an appreciation of the poem, ‘Indian Weavers’ with the help of following points.

-  About the poem, significance of the title

-  Form of the poem, theme and its  significance

-  Poetic style, language features, poetic devices

-  Inspirational message, values, morals reflected

-  Your opinion and critical evaluation of the poem.

Ans : Sarojini Naidu is one of the most famous Indian poets in English. In this poem "Indian Weavers" she glorified the Indian Weavers who are self reliant. The title of the poem is self explanatory. The poet has given spiritual and philosophical touch to this poem.She depicts her thoughts about life and death in this poem.

This poem is a short rhythemic poem of three stanzas.Each stanza consists quatrain-a set of four lines.Each stanza depicts a different time of day i.e.break of day (morning)indicates Birth and Childhood ,fall of night(evening) indicates Youth and  Adulthood and chilly moonlight
(night) indicates Old age and Death.At different time of day the weavers weave different cloths which will be used in different occasion.

The language of the poem is simple and easy to understand. The metaphorical use of language enriches the content.The use of images and different colours unveils the different shades and moods of life .The rhyme scheme of the poem is aabb ccdd eeff .The question-answer method of presentation gives a conversational tone to this poem.The poet uses here poetic devices like Similies , Metaphors,  Alliterations and Repetitions, Symbols and colour Imageries to  indicate different moods and phases of life .The poet tells here about the Indian culture as well as the philosophy of life.

Q3A) Add a word to the sentence  as an answer and rewrite .                                                        (02)

1) Setting includes place, period, time, climate or weather and ------.

   2)  The realistic novel is also called a novel  of  ------.

    3) Murasaki Shikibu’s  ‘Tale of Genji ‘ has been described  as the --------.

   4) The German word ‘ bildungsroman’ indicates -----.

Ans : 1)Setting includes place, period, time, climate or weather and  lifestyle.

2) The realistic novel is also called a novel  of  manner.

3) Murasaki Shikibu’s  ‘Tale of Genji ‘ has been described  as the  world's first novel.

4) The German word ‘ bildungsroman’ indicates growth.

Q3B) Pick out the odd element from the group.                                                                               (02)

      i) Theme, Conflict, Gothic, Character

     ii) Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Salman Rushdie, Hendry Fielding

     iii) Place, Realistic, Psychological, Allegorical

     iv) Drama, Poetry, Novel, Language

Ans : i) Theme, Conflict, Gothic, Character

     ii) Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Salman Rushdie, Hendry Fielding

     iii) Place, Realistic, Psychological, Allegorical

     iv) Drama, Poetry, Novel, Language

Auxiliary Verb

 There are two types of auxiliary verb.

            1) Primary Auxiliary

            2) Modal Auxiliary

1) Primary Auxiliary : Different form of primary auxiliary is used in different tenses, with different                                             persons.

                                    There are 5 Primary Auxiliaries.- Be, Do, Have, Shall, Will

Different forms of -

1) Primary Auxiliary : 1) Be - Present -am, is, are

                                                Past - was, were

                                                Future -  shall be, will be

                                   2) Have - Present -  have, has

                                                   Past - had, 

                                                   Future - shall have, will have

                                   3) Do - Present - do, does

                                               Past - did

                                               Future - shall do, will do

                                   

2) Modal Auxiliary : Modal Auxiliary is used to  indicate Mood or Attitude of the speaker.

                                There are 15 Modal Auxiliaries.- Can, Could, Will, Would, Shall, Should, May,                                                                                         May not, Might, Must, Have to,Used to,                                                                                                 Need to, Ought to,Dare to.

     Modal Auxiliary                        Mood/Attitude                                   

1) Can                                             ability

2) Could                                        past ability

3) Shall                                           determination

4) Should                                      advice,suggestion

5) Will                                          certainty

6) Would                                       habitual action in past

7) May                                          permission,less certainty

8) May not                                    prohibition

9) Might                                        possibility, probability

10) Must                                       obligation, compulsion

11) Have to                                   obligation, compulsion  

12)Ought to                                  obligation, compulsion  

13) Used to                                   habitual action in past

14) Need to                                  need ,necessity

15) Dare to                                  daring, courage 

In Mind Mapping Form -

PRACTICE:

Do as directed:

1) He is able to sing. (Use a modal auxiliary showing 'ability')

2) She could write well. (Use 'be able to' and rewrite)

3) You have to wear mask everyday.( Use a modal auxiliary showing 'suggestion')

4) It .......rain today. (Fill in the blank with a suitable auxiliary showing 'possibility')

5) It's your duty to obey your parents and teachers.(Use a modal auxiliary showing 'obligation')

2.3 The Inchcape Rock - Poetic Appreciation

 The Inchcape Rock is a ballad written by a versatile and prolific writer, poet, essayist Robert Southey, the Poet Laureate of England.This ballad is based on the legendary  folk tale of the Abbot of Aberbrothok who had installed a warning bell on the Inchcape Rock to save the life of the mariners from shipwreck by crashing with the reef. But the wicked pirate,Sir Ralph the Rover, being envious of the popularity of Abbot of Aberbrothok and wanted to loot the wrecked ships, cut the bell. Finally,Sir Ralph the Rover, the villainous character got the punishment of his bad deed.The poem gives us a message that 'those who dig a pit for others, they themselves fall in it.'

It is a long narrative poem - a lyrical ballad. It is divided into three parts. In the First part, there are 4 stanzas.Second part consists 6 stanzas and third part consists 7 stanzas.Thus, the poem has total 17 stanzas.Each stanza consists  quatrain. 

The poem opens with a depiction of calm and quite sea and the whole atmosphere.The Abbot of Aberbrothok, a passive but benevolent person who had tied the Inchcape bell to forewarn the mariners about the existence of the hidden Inchcape rock during the storm to keep themselves safe.

The second part begins with a beautiful and vivid depiction of a fresh and bright spring  morning.On that particular day, Sir Ralph the Rover,the Pirate was  in cheerful mood. He saw the dark speck - buoy-a floating object which has been attached to that Inchcape bell, and a villainous  thought came in his mind to cut the bell so that the ships would crash against the rock . He ordered his crewmen to row a boat to that bell and cut it.As soon as he cut the bell, it sank into the water. Now he would loot the ship and no one would give blessings to the Abbot for his good deed. 

Here, the intention of Ralph the Rover  has been fulfilled as he could loot the wrecked ships and became a rich person.

In the third part of the poem, we find out that how this wicked pirate Rover got punishment of his bad deed.On his return journey, he steered his ship towards the shore of Scotland.The day was dark and gloomy. The sailors could not find out their way due to poor visibility. That very moment their ship dashed to rock and wrecked. Rover was frustrated and repentant but in vain.His ship drowned along with his crew members. The bell, he cut, now ringing as death knell. Here the poetic justice is given to Rover.

In this lyrical ballad, the poet has used very simple language. Different poetic devices are used to convey  a moral lesson "As you sow, so shall you reap."Alliteration, Repetition, Simile, Metaphor,Personification, Inversion,Onomatopoeia etc are used in this poem.The rhyme scheme is aabb. All stanzas carry a same form. 

The poet has used narrative and descriptive techniques to enhance the poetic effect. The poem provides a fine verbal image of calm atmosphere of the sea, the sun, the waves, birds, rock, bell etc.Thus, this ballad glides from one incident to another very smoothly which creates the special effect  on the mind of readers.

The poem gives us a valuable message of wisdom and reality - 'If you dig a pit for others , you may fall into it.'

I like this poem as I am inspired  by this poem. The same way I learnt a lesson-' not to harm anyone or play with any ones emotions.'

4.1 HISTORY OF NOVEL

PART I

Introduction

PART II

Elements of Novel/Novella & Types of Novel

4.1.2 ACTIVITIES ON HISTORY OF NOVEL

Activities 

*** Complete the activities as per the instructions:                                                                                                  

 1. Choose the correct option and rewrite the sentence:

i) The eighteenth century has gifted English literature with .....

a)Novel and Drama

b)Drama and Poetry

c)Novel and The Periodical Essay

d)Novel and Poetry

ii)Novel soon  became the dominant literary genre because....

a)It tried to instruct the readers.

b)Caught the intellectual, sentimental and realistic plane.

c)Helped people to live more purposeful and virtuous life.

d)All of these.

iii)The novel has a history of about.... years.

a)Four thousand

b)Two thousand

c)Hundred

d)Three thousand

iv).... has been described as the world's first novel.

a)Don Quixote

b)Rajmohan's Wife

c)Oroonoku

d)Tale of Genji

v)In the eighteenth century middle class could get the time for reading and discussing the novel because....

a)Industrial Revolution had given rise to the middle class.

b)The spread of machines could provide a time to the people for reading and discussions about it .

c)The realistic picture of everyday life has been depicted in it.

d)All of these.

vi)Indian authors in English Novel wrote on the theme of ....

a)Psychological insights.

b)Domestic violence.

c)Nationalistic virtues or social issues.

d)Scientific theories.

vii)"Novella" means....

a)A prose fiction.

b)Longer than short stories.

c)Well structured.

d)All of these.

viii)There are ....elements of novel.

a)Two

b)Four

c)Five

d)Six

ix)Gothic novel contains....

a)Mystery

b)Horror

c)Supernatural elements

d)All of these.

x)Science Fiction is a genre of ....

a)Space travel

b)Futuristic setting 

c)Time travel

d)All of these.

2)Fill in the blanks by choosing correct alternative:

i)A novel is a relatively a ....narrative fiction.

             (long/short/descriptive)

ii)The word 'Novel' is derived from the .... word 'Novella'.

           (Spanish/Dutch/Italian)

iii)'The Canterbury Tales' has been written by ....

           (Virgil/Geoffrey Chaucer/Malory)

iv).... is the pioneer of the stream of Consciousness technique in English novel.

           (Agatha Christie/Virginia Woolf/Charles Dickens)

v)The struggle between the opposite forces in the story is called ....

            (Theme/Plot//Conflict)

3) Match the following.

         Novelist                                               Novel

  

1)Geoffrey Chaucer                             a)Morte De Arthur

2)John Bunyan                                     b)Don Quixote

3)Murasaki Shikibu                             c)The Tale of Genji

4)Malory                                               d)The Canterbury Tales

5)Miguel de Cervantes                         e)The Pilgrim's Progress

***Match the following.

           A                                                                B

1)Conflict                                                a)Narration of the course of events

2)Plot                                                       b)Struggle

3)Setting                                                  c)Central idea    

4)Theme                                                  d)Background

5)Style                                                     e)The story

4) State whether the following statements are True or False and correct the false sentence:

1) A novel creates the picture of the society of that time.

2) Novel is recognized as the most dominant literary genre in the fourteenth century.

3) In eighteenth century, Drama and Poetry were the two literary forms that were fading away.

4) Place,time and climate were included in theme.

5)Novella is longer than a full length novel.

5)Pick out the odd element from the group.

1)Drama,Theme, Novel, Poetry.

2) Mulkraj  Anand, R.K. Narayan, Raja  Rao, D.H.Lawrence.

3)Gothic novel, Epistolary novel, Novella, Psychological novel.

4)Lifestyle, Place, Characters, Climate.

5) Salman Rushdie, Graham Greene, Charles Dickens,William Golding.

3.2 Writing Skill - Mind Mapping

 What is Mind Mapping?

 A graphical  representation to describe the same idea/facts/situation, is called as Mind Mapping.

In Mind Mapping, we can use different shapes, arrows, lines, connectors, balloons, boxes, scrolls, curved arrows, scribbles, callouts, explosions etc. to describe our point of view. It is a creative and logical means of Note-Taking and Note- Making.

STEPS OF MIND MAPPING

1) Write the main idea or theme in the centre of page.

2) Draw branches of sub- themes from the centre.

3) Write the sub- themes in a very short phrases or in a single word or key word.

4) Topic of lesser importance should be represented as 'twigs' of the relevant branches.

5) Add images to get the message in better way.

Template of Mind Mapping -

Benefits of Mind Mapping 

• Memorizing
• Organizing Ideas
• Brainstorming Sessions
• Attractive Presentations
• Simplify Complex Ideas
• Problem Solving
• Explore New Ideas
• Executing New Projects & Plans

Examples :

1. Prepare a Mind Mapping on Prefix-

2. Prepare a Mind Mapping on Auxiliary-

Marking scheme : 

Presentation.               1mk

Main points.                 1mk

Covering all points.     1mk

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                                         3mks

2.5 Father Returning Home - Poetic Appreciation

*About the poem / poet / title

*Theme

*Poetic devices, language, style

*Special features - tone and type

*Values, message

*Your opinion about the poem

'Father Returning  Home' is a poem written by a great celebrated bilingual  and the prestigious Sahitya Academy Award winner poet and translator in Marathi and English - Dilip Chitre. This present poem is taken from 'Travelling in a Cage'.

This poem has the theme of man's enstrangement from the materialistic man-made world. This poem has autobiographical touch as the poet Dilip Chitre talks about his father. But beyond that he depicts the loneliness and the feeling of alienation of the grey generation i.e.aged people.

This is a free verse in which there is no rhyme and rhythm.There is the use of  uneven length of lines. This poem is divided into two stanzas - first stanza consists 12 lines and second stanza consists 13 lines. In this poem, the poet depicts the pathetic condition of old father. He portrays the dull, exhausting and equally pitiable daily routine of an old father. The poet uses apt words to describe the father- son relationship and suburban life in this poem.

In this poem, the poet has woven pictorial quality very beautifully to describe the evening of life of old father. He also uses the figures of speech like Transferred Epithet, Alliteration,Synecdoche and Onomatopoeia in this beautiful poem. Simile increases the vividness of the pitiable condition of  father as the poet directly compares the old father with the word dropped from a sentence which indicates the least value of the old father in the society.where his presence or absence does not make any difference . His existance is meaningless. The dullness or monotonous life of old father is depicted  through the colours/words like yellow light, black raincoat,humid monsoon night,grey platform,etc.His solitude has been depicted through 'He goes into the toilet to contemplate' and 'His sullen children have often refused to share jokes and secrets with him'. 

The poet Dilip Chitre wants to give message through this poem that the readers should ponder on this issue. They should take care of this grey generation,should spend time with them and share their daily routine with them so that they (elderly people) should not feel alienated or isolated in the home though they are surrounded by family members.

Marking scheme :

Title, Name of the poet     1mk

Theme.                                   1mk

Poetic devices.                    1mk

Value.                                    1/2 mk

Opinion.                               1/2 mk

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                                              4mks