Navodaya vidyalaya samiti pre board examination 021 english – Language and Literature class-x (Rationalized syllabus) Time allowed: Hrs

4. Read the extracts given below and attempt ANY ONE, by answering the 

questions that follow.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

(5x1) 

(A)     

But up jumped Custard, snorting like an engine,  

Clashed his tail like irons in a dungeon, 

  

 

With a clatter and a clank and a jangling squirm  

He went at the pirate like a robin at a worm. 

i. Why did Custard jump? 

  a. Belinda tickled him 

  b. By hearing the clattering of the engine. 

  c. To fight the pirate. 

  d. To catch the worm. 

ii.

 The name of the poet is………….. 

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 a. John Berryman 

 b. Ogden Nash 

 c. Leslie Norris 

 d. Walt Whitman 

iii. The rhyme scheme of the stanza is ……… 

 a. aa ab 

 b. ab ba 

 c. aa bb 

 d. ab bb 

iv. The figure of speech used in the last line of the stanza is ………  

 a. Hyperbole 

 b. Simile 

 c. Metaphor 

 d. Onomatopoeia  

v.  

 What does the word ‘dungeon’ mean? 

 a. Underground path 

 b. Underground prison cell 

 c. Escape tunnel 

 d. Underground safety cell