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STD X, , The Height of The Ridiculous, , Q. 1. (A) The teacher writes incomplete sentence on the board. He\she asks the students complete them:, Ans:, (a) my grandparents are coming for a holiday., (b) to eat an ice cream., (c) I will go for a movie., (d) I am very happy., (e) The forthcoming football match., (B) The teacher writes an incomplete sentence and ask the students to complete it in a funny way., Ans:, (1) Mother gave me cheese but the cat ate it., (2) I went to the market and bought an elephant., (C) Give the words related to:, Ans:, , Q.2 completes the table with words from the box:, Ans:, , Words with one syllable, , Words with two syllables, , jump, live, queen, tree, van, dale, night, star,, cloud, pearl, bike, , narrow, cable, butter, kitten, yellow, happy, printer,, sober, paper, within, began, slender, , Page no. 261
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Q.3., Ans. Elephant –3, Mirror – 2, Bus- 1, Kangaroo- 3, Rough- 1, Insect- 2, Telephone- 3,, Monkey-2, Bucket- 2, Biscuit- 2., Q.4., Ans., Name, , Number of syllables, , Rahul, , 2, , Namrata, , 3, , Poonam, , 2, , Raj, , 1, , Neelam, , 2, , Q.1. Read the following extract and do the following activities: 1. Simple Factual activity: Choose the correct alternatives:, Ans.1. (b) happy, Ans.2. (c) serious, Page no 262, A2, (a) the contrast between the poet and his servant., Answer:, The poet was a thin and slender man while his servant was strong and muscular., (b) the poet’s reaction when he read the lines., Answer:, The poet laughed heartily when he read the lines. He laughed so hard he thought he would die.
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2, Find, out, the, Answer:, ‘I laughed as I would die’., , A3 1, Way, Him, Die, Mood, , expression, , from, , the, , extract, , that, , indicates, , funny, , moments:, , Rhyming words from the poem, , Rhyming words more of your own, , Pay, Limb, I, Good, , Say, ray, Dim, rim, Fly, shy, Food, wood, , Match the lines with the figures of speech:, Lines – Figures of Speech, 1. In wondrous, merry mood, 2. They were so queer, so very queer, 3) sober man am I –, 4 To mind a slender man like me –, Page no. 263, Read the following extract and answer the following, A1 Simple factual questions, Complete the following, (1) he read the first line., (2) the servant read the third line., (3) his waistband split., (4) read the second line, A2 Complex factual questfions, 1) Arrange the following reactions in their proper order as per the extract, Answer:, (d) Was all upon the grin, , Tautology, Repetition, Inversion, Alliteration
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(b) The grin grew broad, (e) He broke into a roar, (a) His waistband split, (f) He burst five buttons, (c) Sleepless eye, 2) After this experience, the poet has never dared to write any more funny poems., 3), , Pgno. 264, A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices :, (1) Complete the table of rhyming words:, Words, , Rhyming words from the poem, , Rhyming words of your own, , Ear, , Hear, , Fear, day, , within, , Grin, , Sin,bin, , Man, , Can, , Fan, ran, , Split, , Fit, , Knit,lit, , (2) Match the lines with the figures of speech :, Lines, , Figures of speech, , 1) The grin grew broad, , a. Onomatopoeia, , 2) And shot from ear to ear, , b. Hyperbole, , 3) He broke into a roar, , c. Transferred Epithet, , 4) Ten days and nights with sleepless eye, , d. Alliteration, , Ans. 2, 1) The grin grew broad- Alliteration, 2) And shot from ear to ear- Hyperbole
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3) He broke into a roar- Onomatopoeia, 4) Ten days and nights with sleepless eye- Transferred Epithet, Page no 265, Q) Read the poem write an appreciation of the poem in about 12 – 15 lines with the help of the, following points:, Ans: The poem ‘The Height of the Ridiculous’ is written by Oliver Wendell Holmes., , The rhyme scheme of the poem is abcb. There are many figures of speech, like Hyperbole, Tautology,, Onomatopoeia, Alliteration, etc. but the one that stands out is Transferred Epithet. In the line ‘Ten days and, nights, with sleepless eye’, the adjective ‘sleepless’ should be for the man and not for the eye., , The poem is a humorous one written for enjoyment, with plenty of funny expressions. The main purpose of, the poet is to simply entertain the reader.
