Std 11th, 12th NCERT syllabus sollutions .

  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  9) ....upon their lives like catacombs...  Ans. Simile 

 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. Do you think the poet advocates total inactivity and death? Answer: The poet does not ad