MH State Board: Std.12 DAILY ENGLISH HOMEWORK

August 22, 2021

Homework 1

Imagine, you have to conduct an Interview of a Teacher who recently received the Ideal Teacher Award from the state government. With the help of the given table and points, draft questions for an interview.

ANSWER:

Homework 2

You have recently read a book. Write a ‘Book Review‘ in about 100/150 words of the book with the help of the following points:

→ Title/author of the book
→ Subject/Story/Information
→ Language/Style/Presentation
→ Benefits/Message

ANSWER:

Homework 3

4.1: HISTORY OF NOVEL

A. Pick out odd element from each line:

1. Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Daniel Defoe, Anthony Burgess.
2. Mystery, Style, Conflict, Character.
3. The turn of the screw, Aphra Behn, Rajmohan’s Wife, Jane Eyre.
4. Drama, Novel, Psychology, Poetry.
5. Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Charles Dickens, Arvind Adiga
6. Growth, Conflict, Setting, Language, Plot
7. Utopian, Psychological, Bildungsroman, Realistic, Philosophical
8. Scientific, Cultural, Speculative, Extraterrestrial, Technologica
9. Arun Joshi, Vikram Seth, Graham Green, Kiran Nagarkar
10. Place, Period, Theme, Climate, Lifestyle
11. Theme, Plot, Character, Novella
12. Charles Dickens, Growth, Philosophical, Cultural

B. Complete the following statements:

1. There are several aspects of the setting. It includes place, period, time, climate or weather and lifestyle.
2. The word ‘epistolary’ derives from the Latin word ‘epistola‘.
3. The autobiographical novel is the novel based on the life of the author.
4. The novel as a literary genre has a history of about 2000 years.
5. The new literature written in the 18th century was characterised by the spirit of realism and denial of romantic features.
6. In Allegorical novel, the surface meaning is different from the symbolic meaning.
7. William James has coined the phrase: Stream of Consciousness’.
8. The two types of conflicts that the plot may have are internal or external.
9. The word ‘picaresque’ is originated from the Spanish word ‘picaro’.
10. The epistolary novel presents the narrative through a series of correspondence or other documents.
11. In the eighteenth century middle class could get the time for reading and discussing the novels because of the spread of machines.