Q 1 Distinguish between literary and non-literary prose by giving suitable examples.
Q 2 Write short notes on the following
1. Assonance
2. Euphemism
3. Synecdoche
4. Hyperbole
5. Extension by magnification
Q 3 Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.
1. Some guests are coming over …..the evening.
2. I will never meet you ….4o’clock
3. She continued to work …..the end of the month.
4. We will not leave…..noon.
5. They waited for the doctor………midnight.
6. I was waiting for you …..the bus stop.
7. WE had planned to have the party….the lawn.
8. I offered my seat …..her.
9. Her spectacles were ….the table.
10. I saw them getting….the bus.
Q 4 Make five words using the prefix ‘dis’ and suffix ‘-less’
Q.5. Complete the following sentences by using appropriate articles.
1. Can you pass me ___ pen?
2. ___ moon looks beautiful tonight in ___ clear sky.
3. They are staying at ___ hotel near ___ beach.
4. I need ___ umbrella because it’s raining outside.
5. ___ teacher asked ___ students to complete their homework.
6. He is reading ___ interesting book about ___ history of art.
Q.6. Give the meanings of following phrasal verbs and use them in sentences of your own
1. Run into
2. Set up
3 Give in
4. Turn down
5. look forward to
Q 7. Read the following passage and point out literary and rhetorical devices in it.
The wind howled like a furious beast, shaking the windows and rattling the doors. Outside, the trees danced a wild, desperate waltz, their branches clawing at the sky as if begging for mercy. In the distance, the thunder roared, its voice a deep, menacing growl that sent shivers down my spine. "Tonight," I whispered, "the storm is a monster unleashed."
The rain pounded the earth, each drop a soldier in nature’s relentless army, while the night grew darker, swallowing the last traces of light. Time itself seemed to stand still, suspended in the grip of the storm’s wrath. It was as if the world had been silenced, all sound drowned by the symphony of chaos outside
But amidst the tempest, there was a strange, eerie calm within me. I knew this storm wasn’t just a force of nature—it was a reflection of something deeper, a mirror to the turmoil brewing inside. For every flash of lightning outside, there was a bolt of realization within, each illuminating the shadows of doubt and fear I had carried for far too long.
Q 1 Elaborate various literary and rhetorical devices used by poets and other writers for special effects.
Q 2 Distinguish between Language form and language function with suitable examples.
Q 3 Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.
i. Who are you so angry ………?
ii. What are you so angry………?
iii. No one likes being laughed………..
iv. I need something to write……….
v. What are you staring………….
vi. This is the young man I told you……….
vii. He needs other children to play ………
viii. Which train are you taking ………….?
ix. What are you discussing…………….?
x. Success is one thing you can never be absolutely sure…………
Q 4 Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with suitable adverbs or prepositions to form phrasal verbs:
i) Please take __________ your coat.
ii) We have taken __________ a new project.
iii) I was taken ________a doctor because I had been able to cure some people in the neighbourhood.
iv) Seeta takes _________ her mother.
v) The old lady offered to take __________ the homeless stranger.
Q. 5. Complete the following sentences by using appropriate articles.
i. We live in _____ big house
ii. How did you like________ film?
iii. Is your son old enough to go to ________park?
iv. It’s _________grand party.
v. I met ______ man
Q. 6. Insert appropriate modal auxiliaries in the given blanks.
i. I ___________ write as soon as I can. (intention)
ii. You _________ do as you are told. (strong obligation: tone of command)
iii. We ________ go to Nanital next summer. (possibility that the event may actually happen)
iv. Children _________ be very noisy. (theoretical possibility)
Q 7. Read the following passage and point out literary and rhetorical devices you can find in it
We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I will say: it is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. This is our policy. You ask, what is our aim! I can answer in one word: Victory – Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the British Empire; no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages that mankind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among men. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, ‘Come, then let us go forward together with our united strength’.
Q 8 Read the following stanza from Rabindra Nath Tagore’s poem “Where the mind is without fear” and answerthe questions given below.
Where the mind is without fear
And the head is held high,
Where knowledge is free,
And the world has not been broken up into
Fragments by narrow domestic walls,
Where the clear stream of reason has not been lost
in the dreary desert sand of dead habit,
Into that haven of freedom,
O father, let my country awake.
i) Explain the following extensions of meaning in the poem above:
a) ‘World has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls’.
b) ‘Clear stream of reason’.
c) ‘lost in the dreary desert sand of dead habit’
Q. 9. Use appropriate suffix to the following words:
i. Sympathy
ii. Justify
iii. Cover
iv. Decorate
v. Explode
