The following paragraph has not been edited. There is an error in each line. Write the error and the correction in your answer book against the correct blank number.

Along with air or water pollution, (a) or and

our cities are often under an (b) __ __

attack with noise pollution. (c) _____

Marriage procession, loud music from (d) _____

neighbourhood are all not good on the ailing and students. (e) ____

Rearrange the following words and phrases into meaningful sentences:

(i) following discipline / the pinnacles / by / a person/ of glory / reach / can

(ii) and at the / self-confidence / it acts as / builds / same time / a restraint

(iii) balances the personality / and inculcates / of a person / good work ethics / moreover it

You, Hitesh Verma, are working as an anchor in Doordarshan, Delhi. Your channel is planning to celebrate Indian English Literary Week. You have been given the responsibility to prepare for and take an interview of the famous contemporary Indian writer Mr. Vikram Seth. Using the guidelines given below and your own ideas, write a set of three or more exchanges between Mr. Vikram Seth and you.

•secret behind a successful writer

•challenges in taking up writing as a profession

•about his published or unpublished works

•message for future young writers

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

a. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;

Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep,

Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook

Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:

i. Name the poet and the poem from where the above extract has been taken.

ii. Whom has the poet compared Autumn within the above lines?

iii. Identify the phrase which reveals the comparison.

iv. Name two places where Autumn can be found according to the stanza.

v. Identify and name the poetic device used in the fourth line of the above extract.

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

b Yes; there are in the backward past

Soft hours to which we turn –

Hours which, at distance, mildly shine,

Shine on, but never burn.

(i) Name the poet and the poem from where the above extract has been taken.

(ii) What does the poet mean by “Soft hours”?

(iii) Explain briefly the impact of such moments.

(iv) What is the learning poet gets from his experience of his walk in the moonlit night?

(v) Identify and name the poetic device used in the above lines.