SECTION - IV

(LITERARY GENRE - NOVEL)

Q 5. (A) Complete the activities given below as per the instructions: (4) 

✒️Answer:-

(ii) Choose the correct alternatives and rewrite the sentences:(2)

(a) The central idea in the novel is [ plot/theme/story]

✒️Answer:-(a) The central idea in the novel is theme.

(b) The main character in the novel is referred to as [antagonist/clown/protagonist]

✒️Answer:-(b) The main character in the novel is referred to as protagonist.

(c) The struggle between the opposite forces in the story is called [setting/character/conflict]

✒️Answer:-(c) The struggle between the opposite forces in the story is called conflict.

(d) Language and techniques used in the novel is known as

[manner / style / texture]

✒️Answer:-(d) Language and techniques used in the novel is known as style.

(B) Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below:

(I) Explain How the setting of the extract "To Sir with Love'" contributes to the theme of the novel.

✒️Answer:- The settings of the extract is in the Green Slade School, whereas one of the themes of the novel is teacher students relationship. It's shows that the students were naughty and ill-mannered but with the narrator deals with them in respectful manner which changed their behaviour. The settings of the novel is in the auditorium of the school which contributes to the theme of the novel.

(II) Discribe in brief the plot of the extract from "To Sir with Love"

✒️Answer:- The narrator of the novel was an engineer by profession by accepted the job of the teacher to earn his bread. He wasn't getting the good job due to his black skin. Here also he was rejected by the students only because of his colour, later he changed the approach of students with his innovative techniques and won the heart of the students.

(C) Answer in about 50 words to the questions given below: (i) Describe The character-sketch of Phileas Fogg from the extract of the novel Around the World In Eighty Days."

✒️Answer:- Phileas Fogg is the protagonist of the novel "Around The World In Eighty Day"s. He is the inventor, who loved to invent new things he was challenged by his fellow mate over his prediction that one can not complete the journey around the world in eighty days. He took the challenge and completed it with courageously. 

(ü) Compare The characters Passepartout and detective Fix from the extract of the novel Around the World In Eighty Days." 

✒️Answer:- The both of the characters are contrasting to each other as Passepartout is good character who helped Fogg to complete his adventures he is loyal, faithful, loving, and unselfish. But detective fix is creating obstacles in the way of Phileas Fogg he is stupid, unimaginative, and stubborn. But there is similarity in both of then we're performing their duties.

(D) (I) Arrange the sentences in correct sequence as per their occurrence in the extract "The Sign of Four'. Jumbled Sentence/incidents : 

(a) Holmes put a revolver in his pocket. 

(b) Mary received a large and lustrous pearl through the post. 

(c) Mary's father was an officer in an Indian regiment.

(d) Mary Morstan was a well-dressed young lady. 

✒️Answer:-

1) (d) Mary Morstan was a well-dressed young lady. 

2) (c) Mary's father was an officer in an Indian regiment.

3) (b) Mary received a large and lustrous pearl through the post. 

4) (a) Holmes put a revolver in his pocket. 

(ü) Discuss the importance of the following statements in about 50 words in the light of the extract "The Sign of Four." The trio-Holmes, Dr. Watson And Mary decide to visit Lyceum Theatre.

✒️Answer:- Mary received the letter stating her to be there at Lyceum Theatre. She was allowed to bring two companions with her, she visited Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes and tell the the whole story and aks for the help. Both of them were ready to help her, Thus the trio decided to visit Lyceum Theatre.

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