PROSE - SHORT STORIES(Treasure Trove – A Collection of ICSE Poems and Short Stories)Question 4Read the extract from Ray Bradbury’s short story, ‘All Summer in a Day’ given below andanswer the questions that follow:The girl standing in the open, held out her hand“Oh look, look,” she said, trembling.They came slowly to look at her opened palm.In the center of it, cupped and huge, was a single raindrop. She began to cry,looking at it. They glanced quietly at the sun.“Oh. Oh”(i) How old were ‘they’? Where were they living? What had they been doing until thegirl called their attention to the raindrop? [3](ii) Mention any three ways in which their lives on this planet differed from life on earth. [3](iii) Why does the girl begin to cry when she looks at the raindrop? [3](iv) Describe the dramatic change in the weather immediately after the raindrop fell. [3](v) What feelings do ‘they’ experience at the end of the story? What had they done earlierthat made them feel this way? [4]Question 5Read the following extract by Jesse Owens from ‘My Greatest Olympic Prize’, andanswer the questions that follow:An angry athlete is an athlete who will make mistakes, as any coach will tellyou. I was no exception. On the first of my three qualifying jumps, I leaped fromseveral inches beyond the take-off board for a foul.(i) When and where is this story set?What reason does the narrator, Jesse Owens, give for the heightened nationalistic feelingsat this time? [3]T24 012 – SPECIMEN 7 of 8(ii) In which event had Owens been confident of winning a gold medal? Why? [3](iii) What had made Owens angry enough to make mistakes? [3](iv) Name Owens’ rival who approached him at this point? [3](v) How did the two athletes perform in the finals?What does Jesse Owens consider his ‘Greatest Olympic Prize’? Why? [4

from The Story Club Is FormedIt was an unusually mild winter, with so little snow that Anne and Diana could go to school nearly every day by way of the Birch Path. On Anne’s birthday they were tripping lightly down it, keeping eyes and ears alert amid all their chatter, for Miss Stacy had told them that they must soon write a composition on “A Winter’s Walk in the Woods,” and it behooved them to be observant.“Just think, Diana, I’m thirteen years old today,” remarked Anne in an awed voice. “I can scarcely realize that I’m in my teens. When I woke this morning it seemed to me that everything must be different. You’ve been thirteen for a month, so I suppose it doesn’t seem such a novelty to you as it does to me. It makes life seem so much more interesting. In two more years I’ll be really grown up. It’s a great comfort to think that I’ll be able to use big words then without being laughed at.”“Ruby Gillis says she means to have a beau as soon as she’s fifteen,” said Diana.“Ruby Gillis thinks of nothing but beaus,” said Anne disdainfully. “She’s actually delighted when any one writes her name up in a take-notice for all she pretends to be so mad. But I’m afraid that is an uncharitable speech. Mrs. Allan says we should never make uncharitable speeches; but they do slip out so often before you think, don’t they? I simply can’t talk about Josie Pye without making an uncharitable speech, so I never mention her at all. You may have noticed that. I’m trying to be as much like Mrs. Allan as I possibly can, for I think she’s perfect. Mr. Allan thinks so too. Mrs. Lynde says he just worships the ground she treads on and she doesn’t really think it right for a minister to set his affections so much on a mortal being. But then, Diana, even ministers are human and have their besetting sins just like everybody else. I had such an interesting talk with Mrs. Allan about besetting sins last Sunday afternoon. There are just a few things it’s proper to talk about on Sundays and that is one of them. My besetting sin is imagining too much and forgetting my duties. I’m striving very hard to overcome it and now that I’m really thirteen perhaps I’ll get on better.”“In four more years we’ll be able to put our hair up,” said Diana. “Alice Bell is only sixteen and she is wearing hers up, but I think that’s ridiculous. I shall wait until I’m seventeen.”“If I had Alice Bell’s crooked nose,” said Anne decidedly, “I wouldn’t—but there! I won’t say what I was going to because it was extremely uncharitable. Besides, I was comparing it with my own nose and that’s vanity. I’m afraid I think too much about my nose ever since I heard that compliment about it long ago. It really is a great comfort to me. Oh, Diana, look, there’s a rabbit. That’s something to remember for our woods composition. I really think the woods are just as lovely in winter as in summer. They’re so white and still, as if they were asleep and dreaming pretty dreams.”“I won’t mind writing that composition when its time comes,” sighed Diana. “I can manage to write about the woods, but the one we’re to hand in Monday is terrible. The idea of Miss Stacy telling us to write a story out of our own heads!”“Why, it’s as easy as a wink,” said Anne.“It’s easy for you because you have an imagination,” retorted Diana, “but what would you do if you had been born without one? I suppose you have your composition all done?”Anne nodded, trying hard not to look virtuously complacent and failing miserably.“I wrote it last Monday evening. It’s called ‘The Jealous Rival; or, In Death Not Divided.’ I read it to Marilla and she said it was stuff and nonsense. Then I read it to Matthew and he said it was fine. That is the kind of critic I like. It’s a sad, sweet story. I just cried like a child while I was writing it. It’s about two beautiful maidens called Cordelia Montmorency and Geraldine Seymour who lived in the same village and were devotedly attached to each other. Cordelia was a regal brunette with a coronet of midnight hair and dusky flashing eyes. Geraldine was a queenly blonde with hair like spun gold and velvety purple eyes.”“I never saw anybody with purple eyes,” said Diana dubiously.“Neither did I. I just imagined them. I wanted something out of the common. Geraldine had an alabaster brow, too. I’ve found out what an alabaster brow is. That is one of the advantages of being thirteen. You know so much more than you did when you were only twelve.”—from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryThe quotation “for Miss Stacy had told them that they must soon write a composition on “A Winter’s Walk in the Woods,” and it behooved them to be observant” can best be described asaan opinion ba stated factca reasoned judgment da researched formal speech

Choose the poem that uses trochaic meter.The lean coyote, prowler of the night,Slips to his rocky fastnesses,Jack-rabbits noiselessly shuttle among the sage-brush,And from the castellated cliffsShould you ask me, whence these stories?Whence these legends and traditions,With the odors of the forestWith the dew and damp of meadows

You go by your day, rushing through the busy streetsand pay no mind to those who stop halfwayunravel in dark corners and let themselves breathbut if you looked in those corners,You'd find her right there,Disguised by the darknessand the curls in her hairHer nose in a book,With her head in the clouds,hiding her feelings,away from the menacing crowdIf you sat by her side,While the world went awry,She'd tell you the story, behind the pain in her eyes.If you peered through her ribcage, you'd see an empty space,from those she gave her heart towho didn't put it back in its placethe brain within her skull is so flooded it could drown In names of people who said they loved her,but didn't stick around.If you gave her five minutes of your time, You'd see how her smile,makes the worst things in existenceseem worthwhileBut you don't look in those corners,You don't even spare her a glanceSo she sits and waits in those corners, waiting to be given a chance

Write a story in at least 15 sentences on the most memorable day of your life . That includes - 1. What happened that day ? 2. Whom did you meet ? 3. How everyone interact with you ? 4. What was the most interesting part of that day ? write one about my day on a trip in cox's bazar

Read the following poem, then answer the questions that follow:Nothing Gold Can Stay - by Robert FrostNature’s first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf’s a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.Question 1Not yet answeredMarked out of 1Flag questionTipsQuestion textWhat example of figurative language can be found in the following quote from the poem?“Nature's first green is gold,/Her hardest hue to hold.”Question 1Select one:a.yyperboleb.repetitionc.allusiond.personification Clear my choiceQuestion 2Not yet answeredMarked out of 1Flag questionTipsQuestion textThe line, “Her hardest hue to hold,” shows alliteration (repetition of the beginning sound). Which of the following lines in the poem also shows alliteration?Question 2Select one:a.“Nothing gold can stay”b.“But only so an hour”c.“Her early leaf's a flower”d.“So dawn goes down to day”Clear my choiceQuestion 3Not yet answeredMarked out of 1Flag questionTipsQuestion textGreen is not gold. In the first line, Frost is comparing the green of spring with something precious like gold. What literary device is being used here?Question 3Select one:a.oxymoronb.metaphorc.allusiond.toneClear my choiceQuestion 4Not yet answeredMarked out of 1Flag questionTipsQuestion textTrue or false: Imagery is evident throughout the poem.Question 4Select one:TrueFalseQuestion 5Not yet answeredMarked out of 1Flag questionTipsQuestion textWhich of the following is the rhyme scheme of the poem?Question 5Select one:a.ababcdcdababcdcdababcdcdababcdcdb.abcdancdc.aabbccddClear my choiceQuestion 6Not yet answeredMarked out of 1Flag questionTipsQuestion textWhich of the following is NOT a theme found in the poem?Question 6Select one:a.The good things in life don’t last.b.Life is constantly changing.c.Life always has a silver/golden lining.d.You can’t hold onto your innocenceClear my choiceQuestion 7Not yet answeredMarked out of 1Flag questionTipsQuestion textFrost writes: “Her early leaf's a flower;/But only so an hour.” The idea of a flower being a leaf for only an hour is a good example of which literary device?Question 7Select one:a.Ironyb.personificationc.symbolismd.hyperboleClear my choiceQuestion 8Not yet answeredMarked out of 1Flag questionTipsQuestion textWhich quote does NOT support the theme that things in life change very quickly?Question 8Select one:a.“Her early leaf's a flower; /But only so an hour.”b.All of the above support the themec.“So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.”d.“Nature's first green is gold,/Her hardest hue to hold."Clear my choiceQuestion 9Not yet answeredMarked out of 2Flag questionTipsQuestion textSelect the options that are true from the choices below about how the poem 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' relates to 'The Outsiders'.Question 9Answera.Johnny urges Ponyboy to "remain gold" by turning away from gang life.b.Johnny wants Ponyboy to hold on to his golden qualities - which make him unlike others in the gang.c.Ponyboy wants to stay in the church where he can continue to live a golden life.d.At the end of the novel, Darry realises that gang life needs to come to an end.