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Plus One Improvement Model Exam Solved question paper - English 2021

  (Questions 1 - 8: Answer any 4 questions. Each carries 1 score.)                      (4x1=4) Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow. The garlands wither on your brow; Then boost no more your mighty deeds ! Upon Death’s purple altar now See how the victor-victim bleeds. 1. Write the name of the poem from which these lines are taken. The poem is “Death the Leveller” by James Shirley. 2. Name the poet. The poet is James Shirley. 3. What does ‘Death’s purple altar’ refer to? “Death’s purple altar” refers to death itself and the final destination of all human beings. The expression also suggests a battlefield, stained purple with the blood of those who fight and die. 4. Identify one figure of speech used in these lines. The figure of speech is oxymoron, particularly in the expression “victor-victim”, where apparently contradictory ideas a...
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Plus One Solved Model Question Paper

  (Questions 1 - 8: Answer any four questions. Each carries 1 score.)                                   (4 x1=4) Read the passage and answer the questions below. He waited a moment in surprise, wondering why she did not come nearer, and then maddened by hunger, he dived at the fish. With a loud scream, he fell outwards and downwards into space. His mother had swooped upwards. As he passed beneath her, he heard the swish of her wings. 1. “He waited a moment in surprise.” Who is ‘he’, referred to here?   ‘He’ refers to the young seagull in the story His First Flight. 2. What surprised him? He was surprised because his mother had stopped in the air with a piece of fish and did not come nearer to him. 3. What prompted him to dive at the fish? His intense hunger prompted him to dive at the fish. 4. “He hear...
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Plus One Improvement model solved question paper

  Questions 1-8. Answer all the questions. Each carries 1 score.           (8x1=8) 1. Who is referred to as the vital man? Mahatma Gandhi is referred to as the vital man. 2. How did he fascinate the masses of India? He fascinated the masses of India through his self-confidence, unusual power, and his stand for equality and freedom for every individual. 3. He attracted them like a __________. Answer: He attracted them like a magnet. 4. Five kilometres __________ not a short distance. (is/are) Five kilometres is not a short distance. 5. If I had tried again _________. If I had tried again, I could have solved the problem. 6. Hasan assisted Dr. Cronin to help the patients. Change into passive voice. The patients were assisted by Hasan with the help of Dr. Cronin. 7. ‘Women of Namuana perform a strange ritual’. Name the ritual. The women of Namuana perform the ritual of walking on fire. 8. “And treat those two i...
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