These are the answers to the textbook activities of the chapter “All the World’s a Stage” (Class 10 English, Maharashtra State Board). They were written with AI help and checked against the textbook.
All the World’s a Stage – Textbook Questions and Answers | Class 10 English
Written board papers, 40 marks and 2 hours each: Science & Technology Part 1 and 2, Algebra, Geometry and more.
Sections
| Warming Up | 3 questions | |
| Questions in the Margin | 3 questions | |
| English Workshop | 13 questions |
Chapters covered
Instructions
Solve on paper with a timer, then check against the solutions.
Warming Up
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Name the following ‘sevens’: (a) The seven wonders of the world (b) The seven continents (c) The seven colours of the rainbow (d) The seven notes of music (e) The seven seas of the world
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Life is often compared to many things. Write down 7 things that life can be compared to and justify the comparison. (Example: Life is a keyboard, because if you press the right keys you have typed a good destiny.)
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Match the approximate ages with the stages.
(1) Birth to 2 years (2) 3 years to 12 years (3) 13 years to 17 years (4) 18 years to about 44 years (5) About 45 years to 60 years (6) 65 years up to 75 to 80 years (7) Above 80 years
(a) teenage/adolescence (b) old age/second childhood (c) middle-age (d) babyhood/infancy (e) senior citizen/elderly person (f) adulthood (g) childhood
Questions in the Margin
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What do ‘exits’ and ‘entrances’ refer to?
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Why is reputation like a bubble?
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What is the major difference noticed in the 5th and 6th stage of life?
English Workshop
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Read the words in the given clouds (Stage, Characters, Script, Dialogues, Entry, Exit) and match them with what they signify (Birth, Situations/Incidents, Story of Life, Death, Conversation, Roles played by human beings, Life).
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Read the poem carefully and complete the table: Ages of Man – Role – Qualities/Actions (two for each of the seven ages).
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Write down in your own words the differences between the following stages of a man’s life.
2nd stage and 4th stage -
Write down in your own words the differences between the following stages of a man’s life.
3rd stage and 5th stage -
Write down in your own words the differences between the following stages of a man’s life.
1st stage and 7th (last) stage -
Pick out lines that contain Imagery of the following people: (a) School boy (2nd stage) (b) Soldier (4th stage) (c) Judge (5th stage) (d) Senior citizen (6th stage)
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Shakespeare uses lines with a steady rhythm of 5 beats in each (Blank Verse). Copy the lines from “And all the men and women merely players” to “sudden and quick in quarrel” and put a stress mark on each of the stressed syllables.
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Think and write on your own.
(a) What is the theme/central idea of this poem? -
Think and write on your own.
(b) Which two stages of man described by Shakespeare sound humorous? Say why. -
Think and write on your own.
(c) The last (7th) stage of life sounds very sad and miserable. How can you make old age also cheerful and happy? -
The poem is entirely metaphorical. Pick out the comparisons from the poem for: (a) world (b) actors (c) birth and death (d) school boy (e) the lover’s sigh (f) spotted leopard (g) last stage (old age)
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Pick out from the poem two examples of each: (a) Simile (b) Onomatopoeia (c) Alliteration (d) Metaphor (e) Inversion (f) Transferred Epithet
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Read the poem again and write an appreciation of the poem in a paragraph format (title, poet, rhyme scheme, favourite line, theme, figures of speech, special features, why I like/dislike the poem).