Hieroglyph and coptic language

We are not afraid to die... Question and answer

Page No 13: Question 1: Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context. honing our seafaring skills ominous silence Mayday calls pinpricks in the vast ocean a tousled head ANSWER: honing our seafaring skills: this refers to the efforts made by the author and his wife, to perfect or sharpen their seafaring skills. ominous silence: the silence here refers to an impending danger. Mayday calls: Mayday calls are radio-telephonic words which signal aircrafts or ships stuck in a disastrous situation. pinpricks in the vast ocean: this phrase expresses the search for two small islands in the vast ocean. a tousled head: this refers to hair in disarray or the disarranged hair of the author’s son, Jonathan Page No 18: Question 1: List the steps taken by the captain (i) to protect the ship when rough weather began. (ii) to check the flooding of the water in the ship. ...

Keeping Quiet

Figures of speech used in the poem " Keeping Quiet " 1.... and we will all keep still Ans. Internal rhyme 2. For once on the face of the earth Ans. metaphor/personification 3. without rush without engine Ans. repetition/anaphora 4. and not move our arms so much Ans. Pun 5. In a sudden strangeness Ans. Alliteration 6. Wars with gas wars with fire Ans. Repetition/anaphora 7. Vicory with no survivors Ans. Peradox / irony 8. A huge silence might interrupt Ans. Irony / peradox 9. Perhaps the earth can teach us Ans. Personification Question Answers Question 1. What will ‘counting up to twelve and keeping still’ help us to achieve? [Delhi 2015] Answer: Counting up to twelve and keeping still will help us to understand ourselves and to introspect. We will be able to realize the real impact of our selfish actions on each other and, finally, on the entire humanity. Question 2....

Figures of speech class 12 NCERT FLAMINGO

Poem 1. My mother at sixty six Young trees sprinting... Ans-personification The merry children spilling... Ans- personification The young trees sprinting and merry children spilling... Ans - internal rhyme, personification Pale as a late Winter's moon... Ans- simile But all said was, see you soon Amma... Ans- alliteration and apostrophe All I did was smile, smile and smile... Ans- repetition Poem. 2 An Elementary school classroom in a slum 1) far far from gusty waves,these children's faces..... Ans. Repetition (far far), alliteration 2) Like rootless weeds.... Ans. Simile 3) the paper-seeming boy... Ans. Simile 4) with rat's eyes.... Ans. Metaphor 5) ....sealed with a lead sky.. Ans. Symbolism, metaphor 6) for lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes.. (house, shaks) Ans. Metaphor 7) these children wear skins .. Ans. Paradox 8) so blot their maps with slums as big as doom Ans. Comparison...

Std 11th, 12th NCERT syllabus sollutions .

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