Q.1 Define the Tense.
Q.2 What is the subordinate Clause?
Q.3 Contrast the Chinese view of art with the European view in brief.
Q.4 There are two voices in the poem. Who do they belong to? Which lines indicated this?
Q.5 What does the narrator tell the readers about his village?
Answers
Q.1 ans. a set of forms taken by a verb to indicate the time (and sometimes also the continuance or completeness) of the action in relation to the time of the utterance.
Q.2 ans. A subordinate clause is a clause that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence; it merely complements a sentence’s main clause, thereby adding to the whole unit of meaning.
Q.3 ans. In the Chinese view, art is a representation of the mind or the spirit, whereas in the European view, it is of the figure or the body. While Chinese paintings reveal the inner world, the European paintings lay emphasis on a true representation of the physical appearance of the subject.
Q.4 ans. The two voices in the poem are the voice of the poet and the voice of the rain. The lines that indicate the voice of the poet and the rain are, "And who art thou? Said I to the soft-falling shower," and the lines that indicate the voice of the rain are, "I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain".
Q.5 ans. The narrator describes his village Hosahalli as an unknown village which never became popular. The fruits in the place are extremely sour in taste and the flowers are so fragrant that you can keep them at home.
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Q.❶ ans. a set of forms taken by a verb to indicate the time (and sometimes also the continuance or completeness) of the action in relation to the time of the utterance.
Q. ❷ans. A subordinate clause is a clause that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence; it merely complements a sentence’s main clause, thereby adding to the whole unit of meaning.
Q❸ ans. In the Chinese view, art is a representation of the mind or the spirit, whereas in the European view, it is of the figure or the body. While Chinese paintings reveal the inner world, the European paintings lay emphasis on a true representation of the physical appearance of the subject.
Q. ❹ans. The two voices in the poem are the voice of the poet and the voice of the rain. The lines that indicate the voice of the poet and the rain are, "And who art thou? Said I to the soft-falling shower," and the lines that indicate the voice of the rain are, "I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain".
Q.❺ ans. The narrator describes his village Hosahalli as an unknown village which never became popular. The fruits in the place are extremely sour in taste and the flowers are so fragrant that you can keep them at home.