(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions for English 2 (Literature in English)

Which figure of speech is used in the lines:
(Last week in someone’s place we saw
A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)

What are the advantages of reading mentioned by Dahl?

Explain the phrase, that ‘shocking ghastly junk’.

What is the activity referred to later in the poem, that sharpens their brains?

Why has the poet used the expressions, ‘ Great Scott’ and ‘Gadzooks’?

What kinds of stories captivated the young minds in the past?

Who was Beatrix Potter?

Whose dirty looks are referred to?

What impression do you get of the children after reading the poem?

Why is the poet so much against watching television? Give two reasons.

Describe in your own words the poet’s feelings when he sees the host of golden daffodils ?

Why does the poet say I gazed and gazed but a little thought / what wealth that show to me had brought?

Mention the two moods of the poet?

How can the heart dance?

How is the last verse different from the other verse? Is the poet deriving a different mood than that expressed in the previous verse?

What does Wordsworth compare himself to? Why?

How is he affected by the experience of seeing the daffodils?

How does the poem make use of contrast? Consider the contrast between the poet and the daffodils, and between his feeling before, while and after seeing the daffodils.

What does Wordsworth compare the daffodils to? Is the comparison appropriate?

Identify examples of the following devices in the poem: alliteration, personification, rhyme, rhythm. How do these devices contribute to the overall effect of the poem?