POEM 1 & 2 REVISION

Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last Friday morning, I saw my mother, beside me, doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a corpse and realized with pain that she was as old as she looked but soon put that thought away…

Choose the option that best applies to the given extract. 1) a conversation 2) an argument 3) a piece of advice 4) a strategy 5) a recollection 6) a suggestion

• 1, 3 & 6

• 2, 4 & 5

• Only 5

• Only 1

Choose the book title that perfectly describes the condition of the poet’s mother.

Title 1 - You’re Only Old Once! by Dr. Seuss

Title 2 - The Gift of Years by Joan Chittister

Title 3 - Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

Title 4 - The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read by Philippa Perry

• Title 1

• Title 2

• Title 3

• Title 4

Choose the option that applies correctly to the two statements given below.

Assertion: The poet wards off the thought of her mother getting old quickly.

Reason: The poet didn’t want to confront the inevitability of fate that was to dawn upon her mother.

• Assertion can be inferred but the Reason cannot be inferred

• Assertion cannot be inferred but the Reason can be inferred.

• Both Assertion and Reason can be inferred.

• Both Assertion and Reason cannot be inferred.

Choose the option that displays the same literary device as in the given lines of the extract.

....her face

ashen like that

of a corpse…

• Just as I had I had this thought, she appeared and…

• My thoughts were as heavy as lead that evening when …

• I think like everyone else who…

• I like to think aloud when …

Far far from gusty waves these children’s faces. Like rootless weeds, the hair torn around their pallor:

The tall girl with her weighed-down head. The paper-seeming boy, with rat’s eyes. The stunted, unlucky heir of twisted bones, reciting a father’s gnarled disease, his lesson, from the desk. At back of the dim class

one unnoted, sweet and young.

The phrase ‘weighed-down head’ DOES NOT refer to being

• burdened by poverty.

• ashamed at her plight

• distressed due to difficulties.

• dizzy with a headache

Pick the option that matches the words / phrases with the literary device.

• 1-A, 2-D, 3-C

• 1-D, 2-B, 3-A

• 1-D, 2-A, 3-B

• 1-B, 2-A, 3-C

Pick the option that enumerates the tone of the poet in this extract.

1. apprehensive 2. compassionate 3. resentful 4. thoughtful 5. disillusioned 6. woeful

• 2, 4 and 6

• 1, 4 and 5

• 3, 5 and 6

• 1, 3 and 6

The ‘gusty waves’, most likely, indicate

• survival and struggle

• verve and brightness.

• drudgery and dullness.

• animation and alertness.