SAMPLE QUESTIONS ‘NOT MARBLE NOR THE GILDED MONUMENTS’ CBSE – CLASS – X(10) ENGLISH

A.
Read the
following extracts and answer the following questions      [3]
1) “But
you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than
unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time.”
a) Who is
‘you` here?
b) What do
you understand by ‘unswept stone’?
c) State a
poetic device used in the poem.
2) “Nor
mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burn
The
living record of your memory.”
                                       [3]
a) “Who is
‘Mars`?
b) What is
the living record’ here?
c) Name the
poet of the lines.
3) “Gainst
death and all oblivious enmity
Shall
you pace forth; your praise shall still find room even in the eyes of all
posterity
.”                   [3]
a) Explain
the meaning of the lines in brief.
b) What do
you understand by ‘posterity`?
c) Find a
poetic device used in second line of the extract.
4) “So
till the judgement that yourself arise you live in this, and dwell in lovers’
eyes”. [3]
a) What is
‘judgement`?
b) What is
‘this` here?
c) What is
‘yourself arise`?
B. Answer
the following questions in 30 – 40 words each
        [6×3=18]
i)     
Acquaint us with the structure of the poem.
ii)   
What is the theme of the poem?
iii)  ‘Time and
timelessness rule the poem” – comment.
iv)   
How did Shakespeare immortalise his friend?
v)     
Acquaint us with three elements that Shakespeare
considered nothing to his poems.

vi)   
Explain – ‘Last Judgement`.