Ques 1.

i) Please take ……………………………… your coat.
ii) We have taken …………………………………….. a new project.
iii) I was taken …………………………… a doctor because I had been able to cure
 some people in the neighborhood.
iv) Seeta takes ………………………………….. her mother.
v) The old lady offered to take ……………………….. the homeless stranger. 

Ques 2.

Give meanings of the phrasal verbs in the following sentences in a few words. (10)
i) Don’t give in to the threats of the terrorists.
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ii) The engine gives off steam.
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iii) They tried to cover up the evil dead.
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iv) I fell for the beautiful girl.
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v) We’ll see you off at the station
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Ques 3.

i) He usually …………………………….. the ball at the right place.
ii) The cricket ………………………………… is wet today.
iii) Many thoughts ………………………….. through his mind when his son was
in the operating theatre.
iv) I wish to see his personal …………………………………
v) You have to feed the cat and its ……………………………………….
vi) He has ……………………………………… the word wrongly.
vii) She came first in the 100-metre …………………………………………..
viii) The magician cast a …………………………………….. on her.
ix) Please ……………………………………………….. this letter.
x) ‘The muddy ground was …………………………………… with crawling
worms’. (Khushwant Singh: The Mark of Vishnu)

Ques 4.

Alliteration

Ques 5.

Assonance

Ques 6.

Rhyme

Ques 7.

Onomatopoeia

Ques 8.

Rhythm

Ques 9.

What do you understand by Irony? Discuss in detail the following. (20) a. Irony of situation b. Irony in satire c. Ironic contrast

Ques 10.

May she be granted beauty and yet not Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught, Or hers before a looking-glass, for such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end,

Ques 11.

Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy The chooses right, and never find a friend. (William Butler Yeats: ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’)

Ques 12.

What kind of beauty does the poet want his daughter to have?

Ques 13.

What are the hazards of being made beautiful overmuch’? How does the poet illustrate his point?

Ques 14.

Outline the main strategies for being polite while doing things with language.