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Subject : Class XII English
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Elective English Model Question Paper Class XII :

Poetry : (10 marks)
1. Read this excerpt from the poem Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth. Answer the questions that follow:
Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs

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With a sweet inland murmur.- Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
Which on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
The day is come when I again repose
Here, under this dark sycamore, and view 10
These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts,
Which, at this season, with their unripe fruits,
Among the woods and copses lose themselves,
Nor, with their green and simple hue, disturb
The wild green landscape. Once again I see
These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild; these pastoral farms,
Green to the very door; and wreathes of smoke
Sent up, in silence, from among the trees,
With some uncertain notice, as might seem, 20
Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,
Or of some hermit’s cave, where by his fire
The hermit sits alone.

i. How do the above lines reflect Wordsworth’s definition of poetry as ’emotion recollected in tranquillity ‘?
ii. How does Wordsworth’s description of the scene around him compare with Coleridge’s style of description in Kub/a Khan?

Non-fiction : (10 marks)
2. Read this excerpt and answer the question below:
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words. This man – or this woman – may use a typewriter, profit from the ease of a computer, or write with a pen on paper, as I have done for 30 years.

As he writes, he can drink tea or coffee, or smoke cigarettes. From time to time he may rise from his table to look out through the window at the children playing in the street, and, if he is lucky, at trees and a view, or he can gaze out at a black wall. He can write poems, plays, Dr novels, as I do.

All these differences come after the crucial task of sitting down at the table and patiently turning inwards. To write is to turn this inward gaze into words, to study the world into which that person passes when he retires into himself, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy. As I sit at my table, for days, months, years, slowly adding new words to the empty page, I feel as if I am creating a new world, as if I am bringing into being that other person inside me, in the same way someone might build a bridge or a dome, stone by stone.

The stones we writers use are words. As we hold them in our hands, sensing the ways in which each of them is connected to the others, looking at them sometimes from afar, sometimes almost caressing them with our fingers and the tips of our pens, weighing them, moving them around, year in and year out, patiently and hopefully, we create new worlds.

3. (A) Grammar : (5 marks)
I. Identify the content words and function words in the following sentences:
a. The tree outside the window taps very gently on the pane.
b. A man sat himself solidly in an armchair, and looked into the fire.
c. It is afunny sort of superstition.
II. State what type of sentence each of the following is and explain why.
a. Intelligence comes into being only when you are free to question.
b. ‘Put money in thy purse. ‘B. Pronunciation

(B) Pronunciation : (5 marks)
I. Underline the words that are stressed in the following sentences:
i. Still there’s no harm inputting afuU stop to one’s disagreeable thoughts by looking at a mark on the waU.
ii. On the road you have often passed villagers carrying heavy loads, have you not?
iii. I looked up and saw the mark on the wall.

II. Mark the stress in the underlined words in the following sentences:
i. A gentleman is more easily taken in. by the falsified historv taught in these places.
ii. So far I have mentioned nothing but plain natural and historical facts.

Additional Reading : (15 marks)
1. The distinction between reality and fantasy is blurred in Marquez’ stories. Elucidate with examples.
Or
2. Comment on the usage of Indian English in Doongaji House.
Or
3. The play Dance Like a Man focuses on changing perspectives with which performing arts is viewed. Discuss.
Or
4. The theme in Life of Galileo is the question of responsibility, of how one uses ideas and beliefs. Discuss.