These are answers to the textbook activities of the chapter ‘A Thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever’ (Class 10 English, Kumarbharati). They were written with AI help and checked against the textbook.
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever – 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 | 4 questions | |
| Questions in the Margin | 2 questions | |
| English Workshop | 15 questions |
Chapters covered
Instructions
Solve on paper with a timer, then check against the solutions.
Warming Up
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Fill in the acrostic B-E-A-U-T-Y with names of things related to Nature.
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Make a list of 10 words related to the word ‘joy’ (for example, happiness).
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Recollect a picnic or a trip to a spot of natural beauty. Write four beautiful, unforgettable scenes that left a deep impact on you.
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From the warm-up poem (‘The steadfast coursing of the stars...’), pick out examples of consonance and of assonance within words/phrases.
Questions in the Margin
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List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem.
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List the things that cause suffering and pain.
English Workshop
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Read the poem and fill in the table with expressions of beauty (joy) and expressions of sorrow.
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What is the impact of a beautiful thing on us?
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What does a thing of beauty keep in store for us?
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Who are the mighty dead? Why are they attributed with ‘grandeur’?
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How does the memory of a beautiful visual scene become a joy forever?
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Pick out and rewrite 5 lines that contain imagery. (One is given: we are wreathing a flowery band...)
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Choose the figure of speech in: ‘but still will keep a bower quiet for us’.
- (A) Simile
- (B) Irony
- (C) Metaphor
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Choose the figure of speech in: ‘Some shape of beauty moves away the pall’.
- (A) Personification
- (B) Alliteration
- (C) Hyperbole
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Choose the figure of speech in: ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever’.
- (A) Epigram
- (B) Antithesis
- (C) Climax
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Choose the figure of speech in: ‘Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon’.
- (A) Exclamation
- (B) Personification
- (C) Antithesis
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From the poem pick out words that we do not use often in modern times, matching these meanings: (a) gift (b) the next day (c) a protective spot (for animals) (d) a cool shady spot under tall trees (e) ferns (f) edge (g) depression (h) cover for the dead (i) streams (j) poetry.
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Write the rhyme scheme of lines 1 to 8 and of the last stanza.
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(i) Write the number of stressed syllables in the line ‘A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.’ (ii) Does the poem retain a steady rhythm throughout?
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Give four examples each of (i) consonance and (ii) assonance from the poem.
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Write an appreciation of the poem ‘A Thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever’ in paragraph format.