What is the asl of chapter the portrait of lady
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The Portrait of a Lady is the story of the author. He describes his relationship with his grandmother over the years. He pens down her daily activities and how she evolved as a character as time passed by. He explains her appearance which helps create an image in the reader's mind.
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The portrait of A Lady gives us a picture of a human relationship in a joint family. It is a factual description, a realistic account of how the grandparents give all their time, attention and love to the grandchildren. The description of the author’s grandmother is deeply moving with a touch of humour and poetry in it. She was so old that she could not be older. It was difficult to believe that she once used to play games as a child, and was even young and married. She seems to have stopped growing older. In the village, she was left alone with her little grandson. She was religious-minded. She was all the time telling the beads of the rosary. She took the child to temple-school. Inside she read holy books. While returning home she fed the village dogs. In the city, she began to feed the sparrows because she got a separate room to live and there were no dogs. In the last phase, she received the author warmly when he returned home from abroad. She sang his home-coming and beat the drum; she was taken ill and she died. Even the sparrows went into mourning and crowded around the dead body. Such was that lady with a noble soul!
Important Word-Meanings of difficult words from the lesson- The Portrait of a Lady
Word-meanings and References
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the thought was almost revolting – the idea was disgusting
an expanse of pure white serenity – silence with white hair and white clothes spread in the house,
a turning point – a radical point of change
accepted her seclusion with resignation – made no protest; accepted her aloofness calmly
a veritable bedlam of chirruping – a noise as one hears in a lunatic asylum
frivolous rebukes – light-hearted scolding
the sagging skins of the dilapidated drum – the loose skins of an old worn-out drum
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Portrait-word picture, शब्द चित्र; wrinkled-full of creases or folds झुर्रियों से भरा ; pretty-charming, सुंदर ; mantel piece–shelf above a fireplace, अंगीठी के ऊपर बना टाँड ; turban-head gear,पगड़ी ; revolting-disgusting,अरुचिकर ; absurd-ridiculous, foolish,मूर्खतापूर्ण ; undignified-not respectable,अशोभनीय; fables-legendary tales with moral lessons, शिक्षाप्रद कहानियाँ ; prophets-God’s messengers, पैगम्बर , गुरु; slightly–a little, थोड़ी -सी; criss-cross-intersecting lines,एक दूसरे को काटती रेखाएँ l
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