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What does iambic pentameter mean? Write an example of iambic pentameter lines ?
What is the point of view in this passage? Identify any two markers.

It’s this detail, the untucked blouse forming a ducktail, that brings me back to myself. “Prim!”
The strangled cry comes out of my throat, and my muscles begin to move again. “Prim!” I don’t
need shove through the crowd. The other kids make way immediately allowing me a straight
path to the stage.

All the world’s a stage :

And all the men and women merely players —Identify the figure of speech and state how it
enhances meaning ?

Mark the sense groups in the following passage :

Binya was poorer than most of the girls in her class and could not afford the tuitions that had
become almost obligatory if one was to pass and be promoted.

In whiled away my time

Reading Neruda’s poetry ;

And meanwhile I misplaced

My identity card.

I noticed, she said

Returning my car ld:

The account of your stipend is entered there in red.

How does the Identity card with “scribblings in red” define the speaker ?
Picking through the Vedas

His top knot well-oiled with ghee,

My Brahmin teacher tells me,

‘You idiot, use the language correctly! ”

What do the image-His top knot well-oiled with ghee’ evoke ?

What does the cosmetic advertisements tell us about the perceptions of our society? Can you cite
one example ?

Pappachi would not allow paravans into the house. Nobody would. They were not allowed to touch
anything that touchables touched. Cast Hindus and Cast Christians. Mammachi told Estha and
Rahel that she could remember a time, in her girlhood, when Paravans were expected to crawl
backwards with a broom, sweeping away their footprints so that Brahmins or Syrian Christians
would not defile themselves by accidentally stepping into a Paravan’s footprint—Why were Paravans
not allowed to touch anything that touchables touched ?
Which sentence in the earlier passage suggest that untouchability is not the problem of an individual
but a social evil ?
What are end stopped lines ?

(10 x 3 = 30 marks)