English Quiz on Poetry: 17.05.2108 for CTET & State TET Exams Exams

Question 1

Direction: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate options :
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel:
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
But, for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.

‘Measured language’ can help in :

Question 2

Direction: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate options :
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel:
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
But, for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.

The brain and heart are unquiet as they :

Question 3

Direction: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate options :
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel:
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
But, for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.

The figure of speech used in line 10 is :

Question 4

Direction: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate options :
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel:
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
But, for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.

The figure of speech used in line 3 is :

Question 5

Direction: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate options :
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel:
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
But, for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.

the poet consider it a sin to express his __________in words.

Question 6

Direction: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the most appropriate options :
I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel:
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
But, for the unquiet heart and brain
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
In words, like weeds, I’ll wrap me o’er,
Like coarsest clothes against the cold:
But that large grief which these enfold
Is given in outline and no more.

It is a sin to open one’s heart and soul in words because :