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1. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: I am silver and exact. I have no preconception... just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. i) Who is "I" in the above passage? ii) Why does it claim to have no preconception? iii) Why has it been described as "unmisted"? What is the image it is trying to convey about its nature? Ans. i) In the above passage, "I" is the mirror ii) The mirror can rightly claim to have no preconception because it gives the exact reflection of the object before it. iii) A misted mirror cannot give the exact image of the object before it and the mirror is not affected by love or dislike or any other human emotions. It gives a proper and exact image, and it is trying to convey that its nature is not biased or prejudiced. 2.Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: I am not cruel, only truthful.... Most of the time I mediate on the opposite wall.

CBSE ADDA 10th English   -Mirror- Summary In this poem, the mirror is the speaker. It is an autobiographical poem. The mirror talks about itself, its surroundings and the woman who uses it. In this way, it gives its observations in an objective way without any personal bias. The mirror say that its appearance is silver and exact. It does not have any pre-conceptions or anything else about its existence. It is just what it is "Unmisted by love or dislike". It is neither cruel nor biased nor prejudiced, only truthful. It can be called the eye of a little god, four-cornered, that is, it is framed in a four cornered frame and it remains fixed on the wall and sees the opposite wall and only when someone comes between it and the wall or at night or in darkness, the reflection of the opposite wall goes away. The mirror is like a lake, it drowns the face of the woman, who tries to see her reflection in it. She searches for her, beauty which she had in her youth. She grows sad to

CBSE ADDA 10th English  Chapter_ The Letter About the Author Dhumaketu (1892 - 1965) was the pen name of Gowrishankar Govardhandas Josh, a prolific writer, who is considered one of the pioneers of the Gujarati short story. He published twenty-four collections of such stories, as well as thirty two novels on historical and social subjects, and plays and travelogues. His writing is characterized by a poetic style, romanticism and powerful depiction of human emotions. The Letter Summary "The Letter" is a touching story of an old man who is all alone and waits for his only daughter's letter for five long years. He receives that letter only at his grave but for that he pays a price. While living a lonely, morbid life, he undergoes some strange experiences of life in his interaction with unsympathetic, callous and inhuman human species. The old man's controlled demeanour and silent sufferings are a bitter commentary on human existence. Coachman Ali used to go every

MCQ _ The Frog and the Nightingale - Multiple Choice Test Question:     Where does the frog croak? 1. In Bingle bog 2. From dusk to dawn 3. On the Sumac tree 4. On a toadstool Answer:     In Bingle bog Question:     What kind of reaction did the animals display to the frog's songs? 1. They hated it 2. They adored it 3. They ignored it 4. They tried to improve it Answer:     They hated it Question:     Why were the animals of the Bog dumbstruck? 1. The frog sang very well 2. The nightingale sang melodiously 3. The moon shone brightly 4. All the animals came to the same place Answer:     The nightingale sang melodiously Question:     One night when the nightingale was about to sing she was startled. What startled her

Poet: Vikram Seth  was born in Calcutta in 1952. He left India to study at Oxford where he earned degrees in philosophy, economics, and politics, and went on to study creative writing at Stanford and classical Chinese poetry in China at Nanjing University. His first novel, The Golden Gate, is written entirely in tetrameter sonnets, something that had never been done in the English language before. The Suitable Boy, his prose fiction debut, examined multigenerational Hindu or Muslim conflict in 1950s India and holds the distinction of being the longest single volume ever published in English. But Seth is much more than a literary statistic in the Guinness Book of World Records. Introduction Our self-image is often based on what others make us believe we are. A poor self-image can do irreparable damage to us.You are what you think you are. Our self-image is often based on what others make us believe we are. A poor self-image can do irreparable damage to us. Think of a