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Because I could not stop for death-
He kindly stopped for we--Identify the figure of speech and state how it enhances
meaning ?
Mark the sense groups in the following passage :
Jessy said that Vimala was stopped abruptly on the way to college and abducted by a
gang of youngsters in black masks.
Once you're used to it
Even the sorrow that visits you
Sometimes, in dreams, melts away embarrassed,
Habit isn’t used to breaking out in feelings.
How does the poet characterize ‘habit’ in this stanza ?

It was just about two years ago that Mohanaswamy had come across the word ‘gay’. He now
identified himself with that word, though he wasn’t sure whether it really described him. For
him, ’straight meant every other creature on earth except him and the people of his ilk. English
dailies and magazines like Debonaire often used the word ‘gay’. But he didn’t know what
gays were called in the vernacular—Do you think language plays a role in discriminating
sexualities ? How ? What is Mohanaswamy’s experience ?

This was the point-this was where the nerve was touched and teased-this was where the fever
was sustained and fed : SHE COULD NOT CHARM HIM.—Comment on the words in capitals.
Do you think this fact has more importance in a patriarchal society ?

According to Althusser, which are the two ways through which the existing power relations
are enforced ?

Mammachi told Estha and Rahel that she could remember a time, in her girlhood, when
Paravans were expected to craw! 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— How does Arundhati Roy sensitize the readers to the social injustices
committed against the Paravans ?

‘If Winter comes can Spring be far behind ?—what mood does the iambic pentameter of this
poem reflect ?

(Ceiling 25 marks)