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1.1 A Teenager's Prayer — My English Coursebook STD 10 — Question

Maharashtra BoardSemi English MediumSTD 10My English Coursebook1.1 A Teenager's Prayer5 Marks
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Choose the correct alternatives and complete the sentences: (2)
(1) The poet prays to the Lord to help him stand. for what is _______________. (might/ right) 
(2) The poet wants to see that his teenage years have been the _______________ of his life. (worst/ best)

Please open up my eyes, dear Lord,
   That I might clearly see
Help me stand for what is right,
   Bring out the best in me.
Help, Lord, to just say “no”
   When temptation comes my way,
That I might keep my body clean
   And fit for life each day.
When my teenage years are over,
   I know that I will see
That life is lived its very best
   With you walking next to me

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) The What effect does the speaker wish to see in himself at the end of his teens? (1)
(2) In what condition does the poet wish to maintain his body? (1)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Write the pairs of rhyming words from the extract: (1)
(1) see - _______________
(2) way - _______________
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Answer

A1. Simple Factual Activity:
(1) The poet prays to the Lord to help him stand. for what is right.
(2) The poet wants to see that his teenage years have been the best of his life.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) The poet wishes the company of God because, by the time his teenage years are over, he will know that the life he lived under the guidance and help of the Almighty, was the best.
(2) The poet wishes to maintain his body and keep it clean and fit for life each day.

A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
(1) see - me
(2) way - day

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences: (2)
(1) We can bear to hear the truth spoken by _______________.
(2) When all people around us are unable to act in a sensible way, we should _______________.

If you can keep your head when all about you
  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
  And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
  If you can think and not make thoughts, your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
  And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth, you’ve spoken,
  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
  And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the following: (2)
(1) Say WHAT ....
the two imposters? 
(2) Say WHO.....
should you trust, when doubted? 

A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Write down all musical pairs from the extract and add your own rhyming word for each of them. (1)

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences: (2)
(1) The speaker in this poem is _______________.
(2) The poem is addressed to _______________.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
   With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
   And which is more you’ll be a Man, my son!

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) Say WHEN ....
can the Earth become yours? 
(2) Say WHY ....
should you consider all men equally important?
 
A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Say whether the following pieces of advice by the poet are Right or Wrong: (2)
(1) Avoid strong feelings and their unsteady emotions.
(2) When you are not satisfied even then don't change your life.
(3) Go after your dream.
(4) Show the courage to risk something.

If you avoid to feel passion
And their turbulent emotions;
Those which make your eyes glisten
And your heart beat fast.
You start dying slowly...
If you do not change your life
when you are not satisfied with your job,
or with your love,
If you do not risk what is safe, for the uncertain,
If you do not go after a dream,
If you do not allow yourself,
At least once in your lifetime,
To run away from sensible advice…

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) What is it that makes life worth living? Give four points : (2)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Give your own rhyming words for : (1)
(1) job    (2) fast
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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Choose the correct alternatives: 
(1) The poet has stopped in the _______________. (village/city)
(2) The season of the year is _______________. (winter/summer)
(3) The time of the day is _______________. (evening/morning)
(4) Between the woods and the frozen _______________ is the darkest evening of the year. (lake/river)

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
           My little horse must think it queer
           To stop without a farmhouse near
           Between the woods and frozen lake
           The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
           The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
           But I have promises to keep,
           And miles to go before I sleep,
           And miles to go before I sleep.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
(1) His horse seems anxious to stop.
(2) The speaker prefers to stay but is forced to move onwards.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
Match the lines of the poem with their figures of speech:
Group 'A'Group 'B'
 (1) Whose woods these are I think I know (a) Alliteration
 (2) The woods are lovely, dark and deep. (b) Personification
 (3) And miles to go before I sleep
      And miles to go before I sleep.		 (c) Inversion
 (4) My little horse must think it queer (d) Repetition
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following lines with the help of the poem: (2)
(1) The child wants a basketful of moonlight on _______________.
(2) The child wants to light the dark route so that _______________.

And he goes back early in the morning
while I am sleeping.
O moon
give me a basketful of moonlight
on loan.
I want to light the dark route
so that my father returns early.
I too want to hear fairy tales
and stories from him.
O moon,
give me a basketful of moonlight.
I want to sow seeds of moon
on the sides of the path.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) What does deliberate repetition of lines 'O moon, give mo give me moonlight, basketful of moonlight' signify? (2)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Pick out the examples of Uiteration and repetition: (1)
(1) Alliteration :
(2) Repetition :
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences : (2)
(1) The poet told the boy to join the others to play but he couldn't hear.
(2) The boy was watching the others play.

Later walking down the street, I saw a child with eyes of blue
He stood and watched the others play; it seemed he knew not what to do
I stopped a moment, then I said, why don’t you join the others dear”
He looked ahead without a word, and then I knew he could not hear
O God forgive me when I whine
I have two ears, the world is mine
With legs to take me where I’ll go
With eyes to see the sunset’s glow
With ears to hear what I would know
O God forgive me when I whine
I’m blessed, indeed, the world is mine

A2. Complex Factual Activity:

Column 'A'Column 'B'
 (1) The child who was watching the others play.... (a) forgive her.
 (2) The poet requests God to  (b) he was deaf.
  (c) could not hear the poet.

A3. Activities basedon Poetic Devices:
Pick out 2 lines from the extract that contain imagery. (1)

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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences using the information from the extract: (2)
(1) His likeness with his brother dogged poet's _______________.
(2) The narrator's _______________ became his brother's wife. This fatal likeness even dogged
My footsteps, when at school,
And I was always getting flogged,
For John turned out a fool.
I put this question, fruitlessly,
To everyone I knew,
‘What would you do, if you were me,
To prove that you were you?’
Our close resemblance turned the tide
Of my domestic life,
For somehow, my intended bride
Became my brother's wife.
In fact, year after year the same
Absurd mistakes went on,
And when I died, the neighbours came
And buried brother John.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the web: (2)
Image
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Write the rhyming words for the following from the extract : (1)
(1) dogged - _______________
(2) school - _______________
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences: (2)
(1) We should not lose the common touch even while walking _______________.
(2) _______________, neither foes nor loving friends can hurt us.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings, nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
   With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
   And which is more you’ll be a Man, my son!

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the following: (2)
(1) Say WHAT ....
can the unforgiving minute be made up of?
(2) Say WHO.....
can you talk with and walk with?

A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Find and write the rhyming pairs from the extract and add your own rhyming word for each of them : (1)
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A1. Simple Factual Activities:
Complete the following sentences:
(1) The speaker stops in _______________.
(2) _______________ season of the year is described in the poem.
(3) The time of the day described in the poem is _______________.
(4) The speaker is riding on his _______________.

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
           My little horse must think it queer
           To stop without a farmhouse near
           Between the woods and frozen lake
           The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
           The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
           But I have promises to keep,
           And miles to go before I sleep,
           And miles to go before I sleep.

A2. Complex Factual Activities:
Find out line/lines from the poem as a proof for the following explanation:
(1) There is no one to catch the speaker trespassing.
(2) The little horse draws his master's attention.
A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) Tell whether the rhyming scheme of the following stanzas is right or wrong. Give the correct rhyme scheme for the wrong one:
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following with the information given in the extract: (2)
(1) The twins were similar to each other in _______________.
(2) The speaker was christened as _______________.

In form and feature, face and limb,
I grew so like my brother,
That folks got taking me for him,
And each for one another.
It puzzled all our kith and kin,
It reached a fearful pitch;
For one of us was born a twin,
Yet not a soul knew which.
One day, to make the matter worse,
Before our names were fixed,
As we were being washed by nurse,
We got completely mixed;
And thus, you see, by fate’s decree,
Or rather nurse’s whim,
My brother John got christened me,
And I got christened him.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) Write any two lines from the extract that you find humorous. (2)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices: 
Write the rhyming words : (1)
(i) limb   (2) brother
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