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16. “What is your name?” a. Who says to whom? b. Why did he ask such a question to her? c. What was her name? d. Write about the relationship between the speaker and the listener. e. Why can’t the listener identify the speaker? II. Answer the following. 1. How does Rip’s “meekness of spirit” gain him popularity? 2. Rip was so friendly and helpful to his neighbours. Justify the statement. 3. Describe Irving’s view of marriage. Support your inference with lines from the story. 4. Describe the party that Rip stumbles upon. How can a party be melancholy? 5. What has happened to Rip after he wakes from his night of drinking? 6. If you were Rip, how would you have reacted by looking at the stranger on the mountain? 7. List out the values/theme/moral/message that you have learnt from the story. 8. Rip Van winkle as a fantasy story. Discuss 9. Find lines in the story that relate to these ideas. (1) distrust of civilization (2) nostalgia for the past (3) concern for individual freedom (4) love for the beauty of nature (5) interest in the supernatural. 10. The family was reunited at the end. Write a brief note about their reunion. Laughing Song – William Blake I. Read the extracts and answer the following. When the greenwoods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling steam runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. What is the rhyme scheme of the above stanza? Find out the rhyming words from the above stanza. Why is the stream described as laughing? d. Pick out the poetic device from the above stanza. 2. When the painted birds laugh in the shade, Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread: Come live, and be merry, and join with me, To sing the sweet chorus of ‘Ha, ha, he!’ What does William Blake mean by “painted birds”? What does the poet urge the readers to do? 3. When the meadows laugh with lively green, And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene, What does the poet mean by “meadows laugh with lively green”? b. Find out a poetic device from the above line. C. What noise surrounds the hill? Answer the following 1. “Laughing song” Justify the title. 2. Why does the poet repeatedly use the word “laugh” to describe the mood of the things found in nature? What kind of mood does it create? 3. Have you ever spent an entire day outdoors, where you had a chance to explore nature? Did you enjoy the experience? Write about the experience. 4. What is the message conveyed to the poet to all of us? State whether the verbs in the following sentences are used transitively or intransitively. Notes A transitive verb has an object. An intransitive verb does not have an object. Note that most verbs can be used both transitively and intransitively. 1. Heat expands metals. 2. Metals expand on heating. 3. The driver stopped the car. 4. The car stopped abruptly. 5. You must speak the truth. 6. You must speak loudly. 7. The boy is flying the kite. 8. The birds are flying in the sky. 9. The rider fell off the horse and broke his arm. 10. The woodcutter felled a huge tree. 11. The explosion sank the ship. 12. The ship sank suddenly. Clauses that are introduced by a subordinating conjunction are called subordinate clauses. A subordinate clause cannot stand alone. It has to be attached to an independent clause. In English, there are mainly three types of subordinate clauses: adjective clause, adverb clause and noun clause. Underline the subordinate clause in the following sentences. 1. As he was not there, I could not speak to him. 2. I waited for him until he came. 3. We eat so that we may live. 4. I don’t know whether he is innocent. 5. If you eat too much, you will fall ill. 6. I am sure that you are wrong. 7. The teacher said that honesty is the best policy. 8. Tell me where you have put my books. 9. The man who committed the theft last night has been caught. 10. It is difficult to understand why he distrusts his own children. Add –er or –or as suffix to form nouns from the given words a. sing ___________________ b. print ___________________ c. project __________________ d. observe __________________ e. examine ___________________ f. dance __________________ Choose the correct conjunctions to fill in the blanks: a) ........................it was a holiday, all the shops were shut.(As/So/For) b) Pamela got married ....................she was 25.(when/because/since) c) He is slow .................hardworking.(for/but/because) d) It has been a long time..................we last saw him.(since/for/when) e) The vase will break .......................you drop it.(therefore/so/if) f) ....................the children were playing, it started raining. (While / Unless /Although) g) She can ................ read ............. write. (neither .... nor / so ... that /such...that)

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