English Language and Literature - CBSE
English Language and Literature - CBSE
English Language and Literature - CBSE
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS<br />
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (184)<br />
CLASS X (2012-13)<br />
SECTION A 20<br />
SECTION B 20<br />
SECTION C 15<br />
SECTION D 35<br />
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SECTION A: Reading<br />
20 - Marks<br />
Q.1 Read the poem given below <strong>and</strong> answer the questions that follow. 5 marks<br />
Once upon a Time<br />
(Gabriel Okara)<br />
Once upon a time, son,<br />
they used to laugh with their hearts<br />
<strong>and</strong> laugh with their eyes:<br />
but now they only laugh with their teeth,<br />
while their ice-block-cold eyes<br />
search behind my shadow.<br />
There was a time indeed<br />
they used to shake h<strong>and</strong>s with their hearts:<br />
but that‟s gone, son.<br />
Now they shake h<strong>and</strong>s without hearts:<br />
while their left h<strong>and</strong>s search my empty pockets.<br />
„Feel at home‟! „Come again‟:<br />
they say, <strong>and</strong> when I come<br />
again <strong>and</strong> feel<br />
at home, once, twice,<br />
there will be no thrice –<br />
for then I find doors shut on me.<br />
So I have learned many things, son.<br />
I have learned to wear many faces<br />
like dresses – homeface,<br />
officeface, streetface, hostface,<br />
cocktailface, with all their conforming smiles<br />
like a fixed portrait smile.<br />
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