CBSE Class 12 English Flamingo Assignment

CBSE Class 12 English Flamingo Assignment . Based on CBSE and NCERT guidelines. The students should read these basic concepts to gain perfection which will help him to get more marks in CBSE examination.

Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow each :

1. Driving from my parent's

home to Cochin last Friday

Morning, I saw my mother

beside me,

doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that

of a corpse and realized with pain

that she was as old as she looked but soon

put that thought away........

Questions

(a) Where was the poet coming from and Who was sitting beside her? 

(b) What did the poet notice about her mother? 

(c) With what does the poet compare her mother's face and why? 

2. ....... and looked out at young

Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling

out of their homes, but after the airport's

security check, standing a few yards

away,.......

Questions

(a) Where is the speaker in these lines?

(b) What thoughts did occupy her mind before she looked outside?

(c) Does lookingout help her, how?

3. I looked again at her, wan, pale

as a late winter's moon and felt that old

familiar ache, my childhood's fear,

but all I said was, see you soon, Amma,

all I did was smile and smile and smile.......

Questions

(a) Who looked wan and pale and why? 

(b) What childhood tear did the speaker have?

(c) What do the parting words suggest? 

(d) Explain the comparison : "as a late winter's moon". 

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