Read the following poem and answer the questions : (5 marks)A1. Read the words in the given cloud : (2) Match them with what they signify. [Two word-clouds: left — (i) players, (ii) exit, (iii) stage, (iv) entry; right — (a) birth, (b) characters, (c…

Q.3 (A) Read the following poem and answer the questions : (5 marks)

A1. Read the words in the given cloud : (2) Match them with what they signify. [Two word-clouds: left — (i) players, (ii) exit, (iii) stage, (iv) entry; right — (a) birth, (b) characters, (c) death, (d) life.]

All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages, At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.

A2. Write down in your words the difference between the following stages of a man’s life : (2) (i) 3rd stage (ii) 5th stage

A3. Name the figure of speech : (1) ‘All the world’s a stage’.