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प्रश्न

Fill in the blanks using the words given in the box to complete the summary of the poem.

Shakespeare considers the whole world a stage where men and women are only (1) ______. They (2)______the stage when they are born and exit when they die. Every man, during his life time, plays seven roles based on age. In the first act, as an infant, he is wholly (3) ______on the mother or a nurse. Later, emerging as a school child, he slings his bag over his shoulder and creeps most (4)______ to school. His next act is that of a lover, busy (5) ______ballads for his beloved and yearns for her (6) ______. In the fourth stage, he is aggressive and ambitious and seeks (7) ______in all that he does. He (8) ______solemnly to guard his country and becomes a soldier. As he grows older, with (9) ______and wisdom, he becomes a fair judge. During this stage, he is firm and (10) ______. In the sixth act, he is seen with loose pantaloons and spectacles. His manly voice changes into a childish (11) ______. The last scene of all is his second childhood. Slowly, he loses his (12) ______of sight, hearing, smell and taste and exits from the roles of his life.

attention treble reluctantly
actors maturity reputation
serious faculties composing
enter promises dependent
रिक्त स्थान भरें

उत्तर

Shakespeare considers the whole world a stage where men and women are only (1) actors . They (2) enter the stage when they are born and exit when they die. Every man, during his lifetime, plays seven roles based on age. In the first act, as an infant, he is wholly dependent (3)  on the mother or a nurse. Later, emerging as a school child, he slings his bag over his shoulder and creeps most (4) reluctantly to school. His next act is that of a lover, busy (5) composing ballads for his beloved and yearns for her (6) attention. In the fourth stage, he is aggressive and ambitious and seeks (7) reputation in all that he does. He (8) promise solemnly to guard his country and becomes a soldier. As he grows older, with (9) maturity and wisdom, he becomes a fair judge. During this stage, he is firm and (10) serious. In the sixth act, he is seen with loose pantaloons and spectacles. His manly voice changes into a childish (11) faculties treble. The last scene of all is his second childhood. Slowly, he loses his (12) faculties of sight, hearing, smell, and taste and exits from the roles of his life

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अध्याय 3.2: All the World’s a Stage - Exercise [पृष्ठ ९१]

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अध्याय 3.2 All the World’s a Stage
Exercise | Q 1. | पृष्ठ ९१

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moat, huge buildings, soldiers, weapons ______,______.


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Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound No other tree could live.

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  3. Why does Toru Dutt use the expression ‘a creeper climbs’?

Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung

In crimson clusters all the bough among!

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  2. Why is the scarf colourful?

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Dear is the Casuarina to my soul;


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The rugged trunk indented deep with scars”,


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“The water-lilies spring, like snow enmassed.”


Why is the last stage called second childhood?


Complete the summary of the poem, choosing words from the list given below. Lines 1 to 32

Ulysses is (1) ______to discharge his duties as a (2) ______, as he longs for (3) ______. He is filled with an (4) ______thirst for (5) ______and wishes to live life to the (6) ______. He has travelled far and wide gaining (7) _______ of various places, cultures, men and (8) ______. He recalls with delight his experience at the battle of Troy. Enriched by his (9) ______he longs for more and his quest seems endless. Like metal which would (10) ______if unused, life without adventure is meaningless. According to him living is not merely (11) ______to stay alive. Though old but zestful, Ulysses looks at every hour as a bringer of new things and yearns to follow knowledge even if it is (12)______.

fullest, unquenchable, unattainable, experience, knowledge, king, matters, rust, adventure, unwilling, travel, breathing

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And drunk delight of battle with my peers;


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star.


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How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!


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Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted.

Tell him to be a fool every so often

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  2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

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..........Free imaginations

Bringing changes into a world resenting change.

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and guide him among sudden betrayals

and tighten him for slack moments.


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Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.


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Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect


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