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And all the men and women merely players ;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

-What figure of speech is used here and how does it help the poet to convey the intended
meaning ?

After reading the story “The Adivasi will not Dance”, do you think the mode of resistance
adopted by the protagonist helps the cause of the Santhals?

In the text below whose do you think is the dominant voice? Why? Substantiate your

views with two examples from the text.

Everyone agreed that my father, my Baba had built the most beautiful house in the
Wazir Akbar Khan district, a new and affluent neighbourhood in the northern part of
Kabul Some thought it was the prettiest house in all of Kabul. A broad entry way flanked
by rose bushes led to the sprawling house of marble floors and wide windows.... On the
south end of the garden, in the shadows of a loquat tree was the servants’ home, a modest

little mud hut where Hassan lived with his father.

It was there in that little shack, that Hassan was born in the winter of 1964, just one year

after my mother died giving birth to me,

What comment you can make on the remarks made by the speaker in the following text ?
Whose point of view is represented in this text ? Do you think only woman are subjected to

domestic violence ?

“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to
fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain’t safe in a family of men. But I never
thought I’d have to fight in my own house.”

(Ceiling 35 marks)