The Queen's Language

 Choose the option that correctly categorizes the given literary devices as per the given  analogy. selfish cars : ___________ :: ___________ : metaphor  (A) personification; polished traffic  (B) transferred epithet; trusting sorrow  (C) metaphor; pitiful kin  (D) oxymoron; greedy good-doers Correct Answer: (B) transferred epithet; trusting sorrow Select the correct figures of speech used in the lines quoted below.   The soul was like a star and dwelt apart. o  (a)  Alliteration   (b)  Pun    (c)  Oxymoron   (d)  None of the above     ANSWER d  Select the correct option.  Half rhyme is also called:-  (a)  perfect rhyme   (b)  lazy rhyme   (c)  mono rhyme   (d)  None of the above      ANSWER b Select the correct figures of speech used in the lines quoted below.   I heard the water lapping o...

  Read the passage given below and complete the statements that follow with the help of the  given options.  Since 2006, commercial colonies of bees used to make honey and pollinate crops have been  collapsing. The loss of bees is a major threat to agriculture. The use of industrial scale methods in  agriculture seems to be one of the main causes of the crisis. Meanwhile, wild bee species are also  collapsing due to the destruction of their habitats. These bees also play a vital role in pollinating  crops and plants generally. According to scientists, bees pollinate more than 70% of the crop  species that supply 90% of the world's food. Given that the world's population is rapidly growing,  more bees are needed to pollinate food crops. Scientists are calling for significant changes to how  humans manage the planet so that honeybees survive and the world's food sources are protected.  Scientists worldwide are joining forces to pressu...

  Read the following extract answer the question that follows: Driving from my parents  home to Cochin last Friday morning,  I saw my mother, beside me, doze, open mouthed,  her face ashen like that of a corpse and realized with pain  that she was as old as she looked but soon put that thought away… Choose the option that best applies to the given extract.  1. a chat  2. a dispute  3. a suggestion  4. a strategy  5. a recollection  (A) 1 & 3  (B) 2, 4 & 5  (C) Only 5  (D) Only 1 Correct Answer: (C) Only 5  2. Choose the option that applies correctly to the two statements given below.  Assertion : The poet wards off the thought of her mother getting old quickly.  Reason : The poet didn’t want to confront the inevitability of fate that was to dawn upon  her mother.  (A) Assertion can be inferred but the Reason cannot be inferred.  (B) Assertion cannot be inferred but the Reason can ...

Read the poem given below and complete the statements that follow with the help of the  given options.  Success Is Counted Sweetest By Emily Dickinson. Success is counted sweetest  By those who ne’er succeed.  To comprehend a nectar  Requires sorest need.  Not one of all the purple Host  Who took the Flag today  Can tell definition  So clear of Victory  As he defeated – drying  On whose forbidden ear  The distant strains of triumph  Burst agonized and clear! 20. The victorious army cannot define victory because they __________ .  (A) do not feel the need to do so  (B) take it for granted  (C) not know its value  (D) are too busy celebrating their victory  Answer. ; (B) take it for granted

  READING COMPREHENSION 1. Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (Any Twelve) 1. The man with the white face entered the carriage at Rugby. He moved slowly in spite of the urgency of his porter, and even while he was still on the platform I noted how ill he seemed. He dropped into the corner over against me with a sigh, made an incomplete attempt to arrange his travelling shawl and became motionless, with his eyes staring vacantly. Presently he was moved by a sense of my observation, looked up at me, and  put out a spiritless hand for his newspaper. Then he glanced again in my direction. I feigned to read. I feared  I had unwittingly embarrassed him and in a moment I was surprised to find him speaking. 2. "I beg your pardon?" said I. "That book," he repeated, pointing a lean finger, "is about dreams." "Obviously," I answered, for it was Fortnum Roscoe's Dream States, and the title was on the cover. He hung silent ...

  Read the poem ‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney, given below. Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends low, comes up twenty years away Stooping in rhythm through potato drills Where he was digging. The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly. He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep To scatter new potatoes that we picked, Loving their cool hardness in our hands.  Digging by Seamus Heaney Based on your understanding of the poem, answer FOUR of five given questions. (a) What is the significance of the comparison of the pen to a gun in the second line of the  poem? (i) It highlights the violence and aggression associated with writing. (ii) It emphasizes the power of the written word to bring about change. (iii) It suggests that the act ...