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The phrases “ice-block-cold eyes”, “shake hands without hearts”, “doors shut on me”, “learned to wear many faces”, “teeth like a snake’s bare fangs” are used to express the poet’s regret. The phrases or lines such as “…believe me, son. I want to be what 1 used to be”, “unlearn these muting things”, “want to relearn how to laugh” are the lines used to express his frustration.

When object moves towards each other, the net- velocity of approach = v_A + v_B.

The poet expresses his concern for the influence of the western world on age-old African custom. He feels that the once enthusiastic and friendly society of Africa now treated its own people like strangers and looked at each other with suspicion and hostility. The white imperialists always exploited and plundered the wealth of their colonies. So their left hands search the empty pockets of their subjects in an endeavour to rob them further.

No, this is not a true story; it is a legend. I feel that the point in the story where the old lady is changed into a woodpecker is the most important. This is because the punishment meted out to the lady teaches us the value of generosity and charity.

A ‘legend’ is a popular story from the past about people and events which is believed by many but one cannot prove whether it is true or not. It usually contains a message or a moral and is narrated to children. The poet himself says that he doesn’t believe this tale to l be true. This poem is called a ‘legend’ because it preaches generosity towards fellow beings,

The major literary devices, also called poetic devices, in ‘A Legend of the Northland’ by Phoebe Cary are a resonance which means repetition of vowel sounds, This appears in line 1: “Away, away… Another striking literary element pertains to the structure of the quatrain stanzas (four lines per stanza) that have no end punctuation.

Each line rolls to the other through enjambment. It works very well in most spots, although there are one or two places where the enjambment is clumsy, such as “Where a little woman was making cakes / And baking them on the hearth/And being faint from fasting…”. There is both an explicit speaker (“tell me a curious story”) and an explicit addressee (“yet you might learn”).

The rhyme scheme of the poem is alternate unrhymed lines with rhymed ones in an abebdefe, etc. pattern. The! major literary technique is sensory imagery that includes vision, taste and sound as Saint Peter (the technique of Biblical allusion) approaches the cottage and witnesses the baking of the cakes, then turns the woman into a woodpecker that can be heard tapping on a tree.

Poems with dramatic narrative are a form of poetry that has a plot and tells a story, s Poems in this genre can vary in length from short to long and they can tell a complex story. Many! times these poems use the voices of characters and narrator and usually, the story is written in metred verse. This poem is a dramatic narrative told from inside a frame in which the speaker introduces the story to the addressee.

In the far cold Northland, a good Saint was wandering on the road. He nearly fainted as he was so hungry with fasting. The Saint came to a cottage and within he saw a little woman baking cakes, As he was starving, he asked a small cake for
himself. The old lady baked the smallest cake for him but refused to even part with it.

As a result, the Saint got angry with the old lady l and cursed her. His curse transformed the old woman into a woodpecker. Today, everybody can see her in the forest where she lives in trees etching trees for her food. This poem has a beginning and an end. The beginning is a simple narrative tone which ends in a dramatic form.

(1) Saint Peter cursed the selfish woman to turn into a bird which will get her scanty food boring and boring into dry wood all the day.

(2) According to the legend, when Saint Peter cursed the little woman to turn into a bird, she was wearing a scarlet cap. Barring the scarlet cap, when she turned into a bird, all clothes on her body burned away and turned black. Hence the woodpecker has a scarlet cap even today.

(3) A woodpecker gets her food by boring into dry wood all day.

(1) The lady was too selfish. She thought that the cakes that she had prepared were too small for her to eat but too large/big to give them away.

(2) Saint Peter was almost fainting with hunger. He demanded to eat something from a lady who was baking cakes. Every time she went on preparing thinner and thinner cakes not enough to satisfy the hunger of Saint Peter. And these also she put on the shelf without giving away. This selfish behaviour of hers made Saint Peter angry.

(3) The lady was far too selfish and without a drop of kindness even to feed a hungry man. As a human being, she had all basic facilities of life, i.e., food, shelter and fire; but she really did not deserve to live as a human being.

(b) A relativistic speed v is proportional to 1 - v²/c².

Shahid spoke to the narrator about his approaching death for the first time on 25th April 2001. After a long conversation, Shahid wished that the narrator should write something on him. The narrator tried to console him that he would be fine soon, but the poet seemed to have accepted his fate with dignified grace.

The narrator, at last, agreed to the poet’s request. Shahid never lost courage when the tests revealed that he had malignant tumour. He bore all the discomfort with fortitude even when he was about to undergo the surgery. He remained a fighter and preferred to walk rather than sitting on a wheel chair, in his last moments, he was at peace with himself and talked about meeting his mother in the life after death.

Shahid was very social. There was never an evening when there was not a party in his living room. There were always some half dozen or more people gathered inside. They included poets, students, writers and relatives. Someone would always be cooking or making tea in the kitchen. Almost to the very end, he was ‘endless mela of talk, laughter, food and of course, poetry.

Shahid was quite witty. Once a lady security guard at Barcelona airport stopped him. She asked what he was doing in Spane. “writing poetry” he said. Finally, the woman asked if he was carrying anything that could be dangerous to other passengers. Shahid clapped a hand to his chest and cried; “only my heart.”

‘Ghat’ is an Urdu word also used in Hindi which means the place at a riverbank from where boats sail off with passengers to the other side. Here ‘the only world’ is a symbol of man’s life on this earth and the ‘Ghat’ is the bank (point of death) from where a man departs for another world. Thus it is the only death which takes a man to the other side. ‘Ghat’ is simply used as a metaphor for death. Shahid dreamt he was at the ‘Ghat’ of the only world-the world of the gone. He was to bid adieu to the world of the living. Having gone past pangs of life he was cradling “in supreme consolation”, that is, “I love to think that I’ll meet my mother in the afterlife if there is an afterlife.”

The just and placid king once had a desire of building an arch across the thoroughfare to edify the spectators. Workmen with great agility constructed the arch. With an effervescent heart, he tried to pass through the arch. But his crown struck the arch and the king lost his crown. Furious at the disgrace he ordered the chief of the builder’s hang. But the chief of the builders blamed the workmen for this. The workmen proclaimed the mason to be guilty for the wrong brick size.

The mason even brushed off the blame blaming the architect. The architect put king in dilemma as the last correction was of the king’s. The king called for the wisest man to decide the guild. The old man ridiculously blamed the arch. But the arch was not punished as the arch touched the king’s head. But the king assumed the nerve of the public. As the public wanted a hang the king ordered for a hang without any guilt.

This proved boomerang for him. He was eventually hanged. His mutton head ministers decided to choose the next king in an awkward way i.e., whoever would first cross the gate, would choose the king. It so happened that a mad entered and he chose a melon as the king. And from then a melon ruled and the common people enjoyed complete freedom as the king melon endowed them “Laissez Faire”.

Given, time taken to read a book per day = 2.5 hours. 

Time taken to read entire book in a week (one week = 7 days) 

= 2.5 × 7 days

= 25/10 x 7

= 175/10

∴ Time taken to read entire book = 17.5 hours.

The architect reminded the king that he had made certain amendments to the original plans of the architect. He suggested that it was the fault of the king himself. On hearing it, the king became so angry that he nearly lost his ability to act sensibly or calmly.

(i) Plastic bag (All others are degradable materials, plastic is non-degradable.)

(ii) Fibreglass (All others are types of plastic.)

(i) Polystyrene (All others are thermosetting plastic materials, polystyrene is thermoplastic.)

(ii) Polyurethane (All others are thermoplastic materials, polyurethane is thermosetting plastic.)

The glass becomes soft on heating and thus can be moulded into desired shape.

1. According to ingredients added at the time of preparation of glass, its density changes accordingly. 

2. Glass is slow conductor of heat. If a cold glass is quickly heated, it cracks suddenly. Similarly, the warm glass if exposed to sudden cooling, it too cracks. 

3. Glass is a bad conductor of electricity. Therefore, it is used as insulating material in electric appliances.

4. Glass is transparent, allowing most of light to pass through it. If there are chromium, vanadium or iron oxides in the glass, large amount of light is absorbed in glass.

1. Plastic is non-corrosive. 

2. It is non-degradable as it does not decompose. 

3. The factors such as humidity, heat, rain, etc. do not affect plastic. 

4. Any coloured item can be manufactured from plastic. 

5. Plastic shows property of plasticity. Thus it can be moulded into any shape that is needed. 

6. Plastic is a bad conductor of heat and electricity.

7. Plastic is light-weight and thus preferred for carrying.

The king got confused by the architect’s clever self-defence. So, he needed the advice of the wisest man in the country. The man selected was so old that he could neither walk nor see. He was not really the wisest one as wisdom does not necessarily come with age. His advice proves his worthlessness.

The sugars obtained by digestion of carbohydrates are slowly burnt to release energy. Some of the energy released is utilised by the body to generate heat and keep the body warm. During winter when the temperature outside is cold. Therefore the body needs to bum more sugar to generate more heat to keep the body warm. Whereas in summer less heat is required so less sugar is burnt to produce heat.

Since more sugar is required in winter to keep the body warm than in summer, we feel hungrier in winter than we do in summer.

From the murmura or puffed rice used we get carbohydrates. The sev and farsan used provide, proteins and fats. The vegetables like onion, tomato, coriander etc. provide us with vitamins and minerals. The (sweet and hot) chutneys used also provide us with sugars, vitamins and minerals.

Area of rectangular block

= 25.2 × 16.8

= 423.4 cm²

∴ \(\frac{\Delta A}{A}=(\frac{\Delta l}{l}+\frac{\Delta b}{b})\)

=\((\frac{0.1}{25.2}+\frac{0.1}{16.8})\)

∴ ΔA = \((\frac{0.1}{25.2}+\frac{0.1}{16.8})\times423.4\)

= 4.2 cm²

∴ Area of rectangle block

= (423.4 ± 4.2) cm²

1. Decorative items used at the time of festivals. 

2. Packing materials. 

3. Insulating boxes to keep food warm. 

4. Insulating boxes to keep fish in iced condition to prevent decomposition. 

5. Thermocol beads in the bean bags.

वृहदेश्वर मंदिर तमिलनाडु के तांजोर (थंजावुर) में है ।

• इस मंदिर का निर्माण ई.स. 1003 से ई.स. 1010 के समय में हुआ था ।
• यह मंदिर महादेव शिव का होने से इसे वृहदेश्वर कहते हैं ।
• यह मंदिर चोल वंश के राजा राजराजे ने बनवाया था, इसलिए इसे राजेश्वर मंदिर भी कहते हैं ।
• यह मंदिर 500 फूट लंबा और 250 फूट चौड़े चबूतरे पर बनाया गया है ।
• इस मंदिर का शिखर जमीन से लगभग 200 फूट ऊँचा है । उस समय वृहदेश्वर मंदिर ने ऊँचे शिखरवाले मंदिरों में स्थान प्राप्त किया था ।
• भव्य शिखर, विशाल कद में रही संवादितता और कलात्मक सुशोभन के कारण यह मंदिर भारतीय स्थापत्य की बेमिसाल नमूनेवाले विरासत है ।
• द्रविड़ शैली में निर्मिय यह मंदिर दक्षिण भारत में भव्य मंदिरों में स्थान रखता है ।

कोणार्क का सूर्यमंदिर उड़ीसा के पुरी जिले में स्थित है ।

• यह मंदिर रथ आकार का है, जिसे सात घोड़े खींच रहे है इसके 12 चौड़े पहिए है ।
• यह सूर्यदेव को समर्पित संपूर्णत: काले पत्थर से बना हुआ है ।
• इसलिए इसे काला पेगोड़ा कहा जाता है ।

कोणार्क के सूर्यमंदिर का निर्माण गंगवंश के राजा नरसिंह वर्मन के समय हुआ था ।

सही विकल्प है (D) 12

The corrugated cardboard, thermocol or bubble wrap absorb the shocks, when there is a jerky movement and protect the fragile articles from getting damaged. Therefore they are used for packing these fragile articles.

volume = length × breadth × height = 2 × 1 × 0.5 = 1 m³

In the jar having salt water because it has more density.

सही उत्तर है  पिरामिड

कोणार्क सूर्यमंदिर उड़ीसा के पुरी जिल्ले में बंगाल की खाड़ी के पास है ।

• इस मंदिर का निर्माण तेरहवीं सदी में गंगवंश के राजा नरसिंह वर्मन प्रथम ने करवाया था ।
• सात घोड़ों द्वारा खींचते इस मंदिर का आकार सूर्य के रथ का दिया गया है ।
• इसके 12 चौड़े पहिए है । मंदिर के आधार को सुंदरता प्रदान करते ये पहिएँ वर्ष के 12 महीनों को सूचित करते है ।
• प्रत्येक चक्र में आठ आरे है, जो दिन के आठ पहरों को बताते है ।
• रूपांकनों की सूचना और विषय विविधता की दृष्टि से यह मंदिर अद्वितीय है ।
• इस मंदिर का निर्माण काले पत्थरों से होने के कारण इसे काला पैगोड़ा भी कहते हैं ।
• द्विप, सांसारिक और सजावट इन तीनों प्रकार की शिल्पों में 13वी सदी की उड़ीसा की संस्कृति और सभ्यता का प्रतिबिंब दृष्टिगोचर होता है ।

No. Mass/Volume is density. The density of thermocol is lesser than that of wooden block. The mass will not be the same.

खजूराहो मंदिर मध्यप्रदेश के छत्तरपुर जिले में है ।

• खजूराहो बुंदेलखंड के चंदेल राजपूतों की राजधानी था ।
• इनके समयादरम्यान (ई.स. 905 से 1050) में यहाँ 80 मंदिरों का निर्माण हुआ था । जिनमें वर्तमान में 25 मंदिर ही अस्तित्व में है ।
• इनमें से अधिकांश मंदिर शैव मंदिर है, तो कुछ वैष्णव और जैन मंदिर भी है ।
• इन सभी मंदिरों की रचनाशैली और उनका शिल्पविधान लगभग समान है ।
• इनमें चौसठ यौगिनि का मंदिर मुख्य है । इस मंदिर का तोरण अलंकारिक शैली के लिए प्रसिद्ध है ।
• प्रारंभिक सभी मंदिर ग्रेनाईट पत्थर से बनाए गये थे ।
• इन मंदिरों का निर्माण नागर शैली में हुआ था ।
• देश-विदेश के पर्यटकों को खजुराहों के मंदिरों की शिल्पकला, मूर्तिकला और वास्तुकला मंत्रमुग्ध करती है ।

फतेहपुर सीकरी आगरा से 26 मील दूर आया हुआ है ।

Ratio of red beads : blue beads = 35 : 30 = 7 : 6

Also given that the bracelet made is smaller in size

∴ The possible ways are red beads : blue beads = 7 : 6 (or) 14 : 12 (or) 21 : 18 (or) 28 : 24

In 4 different way can she made.

धोलावीरा कच्छ जिले की भचाऊ तालुके के खदीरभेट में आया है ।

Although – Federalism is functioning satisfactorily, many problems and arguments are going on. Things got worse from the 1990s, after implementing the liberalization policies. When Indians and foreigners invest in the country, regional equality was not kept. Many States were ignored. Private investors want to invest in the States which are already rich in industries. They do that because in the developed States there will be roads and such other infrastructure facilities essential for industries.

Market economy will only widen the gap between the developed and developing or under-developed States. In short, liberalization has created regional inequalities and increased them. The only solution to this problem is government and the public sector taking the initiative and do things to bring the underdeveloped States at par with the developed ones.

B. Between Mumbai and Thane

सही उत्तर है कर्णाटक

पट्टदकल के मंदिर नागर और द्रविड़ शैली के है ।