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The Bangle Sellers Sarojini Naidu Extract 1:        Bangle sellers are we who bear Our shining loads to the temple fair…. Q.1. What is being referred to as ‘shining loads’? Who all are its prospective buyers? Ans: The shining bangles that are being carried by the bangle sellers to the temple fair for sale are called the ‘shining loads’. The prospective buyers of these bangles are the women of every age group. Q.2. Why does the bangle sellers choose to sell their bangles at the temple fair? Ans: The temple fair is a place which is visited by women of all age groups. Therefore, the bangle sellers choose to sell their bangles to the ‘happy daughters and happy wives’ at the temple fair. Q.3. Which figure of speech has been used in the line, “Rainbow-tinted circles of light”?Explain how is this related to the happiness of daughters and wives? Ans: The figure of speech used here is metaphor as the multi-hued bangles are compared with the radiant lives of happy daughters and h

The Patriot: About the poem The Patriot is a dramatic monologue written by the renowned English poet and playwright Robert Browning. He is well known for his dramatic monologues and is widely celebrated as one of the foremost poets of the Victorian era. In this poem, Browning talks about Politics, Patriotism, Religious faith, and the harsh reality of the leaders who are true to their sense of patriotism. It speaks about the sacrifice of such leaders who are misunderstood by the people. The speaker of the poem is a patriot. The poem is a monologue of this ‘patriot speaker’ who narrates his tale to us as he has been taken to the scaffold to be executed publicly for his ‘misdeeds’. He tells us of his situation: how he was once well loved by everyone, and how he is now despised by the same people. The patriot is innocent of having done any misdeeds, and it is only out of the misunderstanding of the people that he is being put to death. His death sentence is for the wrong reason, and alth

                                    LITERATURE IN ENGLISH                                 Class: 9 OLD MAN AT THE BRIDGE This paper consists of 3 pages. “Where do you come from?” I asked him. “From San Carlos,” he said, and smiled. That was his native town and so it gave him pleasure to mention it and he smiled.” Name the author. Which incident is this story based on? (The author is Ernest Miller Hemingway. This incident is based upon an incident that took place during an Easter Sunday stopover at the Ebro River while Hemingway was a war correspondent covering the Spanish Civil War. Describe the old man. Why was he sitting at the bridge? (The old man wore steel rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes and with a dusty face sat by the side of the road. (He was sitting at the bridge as he was too tired to go any further. What type of a bridge was it and what kind of vehicles were going up and down? (It was a pontoon bridge across the river. (Carts, trucks and mul