REVISION PAPER 1

8^TH

a)     Answer the following questions briefly:

1.     Describe Promodini in your own words.                                                           2

2.     What do you think were the poets feeling while writing the poem “I stood tip-toe upon a hill”?                                                                                                 2

b)     Give two meanings for the given word and use the given word to make a  

sentence of your own:                                                                                            3

1.     Profuse

2.     Nonchalantly

3.     Compatible

c)     Answer the following with reference to context:                                                3

1.     ‘Our daughter has not laughed like this for years!’

·       Who said this and to whom?

·       What situation triggered this response?

·       What happened immediately after this statement?

2.     ‘Now this is very strange!’ Mrs. Bhandari cried out in protest. ‘How rude he is!’

·       Who is this statement about?

·       Why did the speaker feel like this?

·       What happened immediately after this statement?

d)     Which words in the poem are described for the following:                               2

1.     Shady and leafy like shelter

2.     A bunch of flowers

3.     Clean air

4.     Lively flow of water

e)     Describe the below given picture in 10 lines or write a Rhyme of 8 to 10 lines   

      expressing this picture.                                                                                          3