10th Class English Mirror by Sylvia Plath Question Bank

done 10th CBSE English Mirror by Sylvia Plath Total Questions - 23

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  Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                           (1x3= 3) I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. (a) What is the meaning of the poet by 'silver and exact'? (b) What is the poetic device used in the stanza? (c) What is the synonym of 'preconception'?
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    Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                         (1 x 3 = 3) I am not cruel, only truthful. The eye of a little God, four cornered. (a) Who does 'I' refer to? (b) Which poetic device is used in these lines? (c) What does 'four cornered' mean?
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    Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                            (1x3=3) Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long. I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over and over. (a) What does the word 'pink' refer to?" (b) How does the mirror spend most of its time? (c) In the last line, what does the word 'us' refers to?
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    Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                            (1x3=3) Now, I am a lake. A woman bends over me, Searching my reaches for what she really is. Then, she turns to those liars, the candles or the Moon. I see her back and reflect it faithfully. (a) What does the phrase 'I am a lake' mean? (b) Why does the poet call candles and the moon liars? (c) What is the woman searching the in the mirror?
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    Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                            (1x3=3) She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. I am important to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. (a) To whom does 'She' refer? (b) Give the meaning of 'Agitation'. (c) Why does she reward the mirror with tears?  
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  What lesson does the mirror convey?      
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    What is the poetic device used when the mirror says 'I swallow'?                  
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             How does the mirror usually pass its time?
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    What disturbs the mirror's contemplation of the opposite wall?                    
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      Why does the mirror appear to be a lake in the second stanza? What aspect of the mirror do you think is being referred to here?
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    How does the woman feel on looking at her reflection?
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    What is the woman searching for in the depths of the lake?
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    How does the narrator convey the fact that the woman looking at her reflection in the lake is deeply distressed?
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    What makes the woman start crying?
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    What do you think the 'terrible fish' in the last line symbolises? What is the poetic device used here?
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    What does the poet mean by, "she has drowned a young girl"?   
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                      "Those liars, the candles or the Moon". Explain.
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    "The eye of a little God". What do you understand by these words?     
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                     "I am not cruel". What does the mirror want to say here?  
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  "I see her back, and reflect it faithfully." She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands. In the poem 'Mirror' the woman has a great faith on the mirror. Though it is painful to her to face her charmless face, yet she comes to it and views herself in it. Now, suppose you are the woman who has been examining herself in the mirror, since a young age. At present you ace an old woman and have lost your beauty. Write a diary entry in which you express your pain.
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    Imagine you are the mirror. Write a speech that you would like to deliver to the humans who come to see their reflection in you.
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                      "Whatever I see I swallow immediately just as it is, un misted by love or dislike." Why does the mirror say this ?                         
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      What opinion do you form of the mirror in Sylvia Plain's poem of the same name?          
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