10th Standard – Quarterly Examination – 2025
English
Time: 3.00 Hours Maximum Marks: 100
Choose the most appropriate answer:
Section – I
Answer any three of the following questions in a sentence or two. (3×2=6)
Section – II
Read the following sets of poetic lines and answer any three of the following. (3×2=6)
– What does the poet mean by this line?
– Identify the figure of speech used here.
The poor never grumble”
– What is the figure of speech used in these lines?
– What does ‘harmony’ mean?
Section – III
Answer any three of the following. (3×2=6)
He painted a beautiful picture.
Ravi said, “I am going to the market.”
I met a girl. She was wearing a red dress.
He was tired but he went to work.
Section – IV
Answer the following question. (1×2=2)
my sister and i visited chennai last december
SECTION - 1
Answer any two of the following in a paragraph. (2×5=10)
SECTION - 2
Answer any two of the following. (2×5=10)
“She’s a lioness; don’t mess with her.
She’ll not spare you if you’re a prankster.
Don’t ever try to saw her pride, her self-respect.
She knows how to thaw you, saw you—so beware!”
- (a) Pick out the line that has a metaphor in it.
- (b) What do the words ‘thaw’ and ‘saw’ mean here?
- (c) Identify the alliterated words in the first line.
- (d) What is the tone of the author in this stanza?
- (e) Give the rhyme scheme for the given stanza.
Let me but live my life from year to year,
With forward face and unreluctant soul;
Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal;
Not mourning for the things that disappear
Summer and winter alike they scold.
Nothing goes right with the folks you meet
Down on that gloomy Complaining Street.
- (a) Pick out the rhyming words from the given stanza.
- (b) Give the rhyme scheme for the given stanza.
- (c) Identify the figure of speech in the first line.
Elucidate this statement from the poet’s point of view.
Note: Answer any four of the following.
Mobile Galaxy – Smart phones – accessories – SIM cards – Recharge – Free power banks on Mobile purchase – No.1, Toll Gate, Trichy.
(Imagine a picture depicting a vibrant natural scene with a clean river, lush trees, and diverse wildlife.)
INSV Tarini is the second sailboat of the Indian Navy (The first being the INSV Mhadei). It is a 55-foot sailing vessel built indigenously in India by M/s Aquarius Shipyard Pvt. Ltd, located in Goa. After undergoing extensive sea trials, she was commissioned to the Indian Navy service on 18 February 2017. The boat was named after the famous ‘Tara-Tarini’ temple in Ganjam district of Odisha. The word ‘Tarini’ means ‘boat’ and in Sanskrit it means ‘Saviour’. INSV Tarini has an advanced Raymarine navigation suite and an array of satellite communication systems for perfect navigation anywhere in the world.
- Many students has turned up for the seminar.
- One of the boys are missing.
- I bought an book this morning.
- Sreena avoids to eat fruits.
- The deer runs fastly.
A woman is beauty innate,
A symbol of power and strength.
She puts her life at stake,
She's real, she's not fake!
Note: Answer all the questions.
Shining – despotic leader – cruel proclamation – aged people put to death – poor farmer – loved mother – sorrow – took mother to mountain – dropped twigs – advice for return – hid mother – governor's demand – rope of ashes – mother's wisdom – law abolished – wisdom.
After a long minute, I slowly opened it again. There was nothing there. There was no sound. None of us ever heard the ghost again. The slamming of the doors had aroused mother: she peered out of her room. ‘What on earth are you boys doing?’ she demanded. Herman ventured out of his room. ‘Nothing,’ he said, gruffly, but he was, in colour, a light green. ‘What was all that running around downstairs?’ said mother. So she had heard the steps, too! We just looked at her. ‘Burglars!’ she shouted, intuitively. I tried to quieten her by starting lightly downstairs.
‘Come on, Herman,’ I said.
‘I’ll stay with mother,’ he said. ‘She’s all excited.’
I stepped back onto the landing.
‘Don’t either of you go a step,’ said mother. ‘We’ll call the police.’ Since the phone was downstairs, I didn’t see how we were going to call the police -- nor did I want the police – but mother made one of her quick, incomparable decisions. She flung up a window of her bedroom which faced the bedroom windows of the house of a neighbour, picked up a shoe, and whammed it through a pane of glass across the narrow space that separated the two houses. Glass tinkled into the bedroom occupied by a retired engraver named Bodwell and his wife. Bodwell had been for some years in rather a bad way and was subject to mild ‘attacks’. Almost everybody we knew or lived near had some kind of attacks.
Questions:
- What was the mother's initial reaction upon hearing the noise?
- What did the narrator and Herman do when their mother demanded an explanation?
- Why did the narrator's mother decide to call the police?
- How did the mother attempt to call the police, and what was the unusual method she used?
- What happened to the Bodwells' window, and who were the Bodwells?
- What did Mrs. Bodwell say upon hearing the commotion?
- What does the phrase "whammed it through a pane of glass" imply about the mother's action?
- Were the narrator and Herman keen on calling the police? Why or why not?
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