CTET ENGLISH QUIZ 12

Direction : Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:

Behold her, single in the field,

Yon solitary Highland Lass!

Reaping and singing by herself;

Stop here, or gently pass!

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,

And sings a melancholy strain;

O listen! For the Vale profound

Is over flowing with the sound.

No Nightingale did ever chaunt

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travellers in some shady haunt,

Among Arabian sands;

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard

In spring - time form the Cuckoo - bird,

Breaking the silence of the seas

Among the farthest Hebrides.

Will no one tell me what she sings?

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For old, unhappy, far - off things,

And battles long ago:

Or is it some more humble lay,

Familiar matter of to - day?

Some natural sorrow, loss or pain,

That has been, and may be again?

The tone of the poem is

Direction : Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:

Behold her, single in the field,

Yon solitary Highland Lass!

Reaping and singing by herself;

Stop here, or gently pass!

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,

And sings a melancholy strain;

O listen! For the Vale profound

Is over flowing with the sound.

No Nightingale did ever chaunt

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travellers in some shady haunt,

Among Arabian sands;

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard

In spring - time form the Cuckoo - bird,

Breaking the silence of the seas

Among the farthest Hebrides.

Will no one tell me what she sings?

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For old, unhappy, far - off things,

And battles long ago:

Or is it some more humble lay,

Familiar matter of to - day?

Some natural sorrow, loss or pain,

That has been, and may be again?

The phrase 'a melancholy strain' means

Direction : Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:

Behold her, single in the field,

Yon solitary Highland Lass!

Reaping and singing by herself;

Stop here, or gently pass!

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,

And sings a melancholy strain;

O listen! For the Vale profound

Is over flowing with the sound.

No Nightingale did ever chaunt

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travellers in some shady haunt,

Among Arabian sands;

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard

In spring - time form the Cuckoo - bird,

Breaking the silence of the seas

Among the farthest Hebrides.

Will no one tell me what she sings?

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For old, unhappy, far - off things,

And battles long ago:

Or is it some more humble lay,

Familiar matter of to - day?

Some natural sorrow, loss or pain,

That has been, and may be again?

The song is addressed to

Direction : Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:

Behold her, single in the field,

Yon solitary Highland Lass!

Reaping and singing by herself;

Stop here, or gently pass!

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,

And sings a melancholy strain;

O listen! For the Vale profound

Is over flowing with the sound.

No Nightingale did ever chaunt

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travellers in some shady haunt,

Among Arabian sands;

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard

In spring - time form the Cuckoo - bird,

Breaking the silence of the seas

Among the farthest Hebrides.

Will no one tell me what she sings?

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For old, unhappy, far - off things,

And battles long ago:

Or is it some more humble lay,

Familiar matter of to - day?

Some natural sorrow, loss or pain,

That has been, and may be again?

The poem suggests that

Directions : Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:
Look To This Day
Look to this day
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its briefest course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
And today well lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day,
Such is the salutation to this ever new dawn.

Which figure of speech has been used in the phrase "tomorrow is only a vision"?

Directions : Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:
Look To This Day
Look to this day
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its briefest course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
And today well lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day,
Such is the salutation to this ever new dawn.

The overall tone of the poem is -

Directions :- Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:
Look To This Day
Look to this day
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its briefest course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
And today well lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day,
Such is the salutation to this ever new dawn.

Which figure of speech is used in the phrase "The very life of life"?

Directions : Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:
Look To This Day
Look to this day
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its briefest course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
And today well lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day,
Such is the salutation to this ever new dawn.

The word "verities" as used in the poem means -

Directions : Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:
Look To This Day
Look to this day
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its briefest course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
And today well lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day,
Such is the salutation to this ever new dawn.

The poem highlights the significance of -

Directions : Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow by choosing the correct/most appropriate options:
Look To This Day
Look to this day
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its briefest course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision
And today well lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day,
Such is the salutation to this ever new dawn.

The poem is celebration of today because -