Read the following extract and do the given activities : (5 marks)A1. Read the words in the given clouds. Match them with what they signify. (2) [Two word-clouds: left — (1) Stage, (2) Characters, (3) Entry, (4) Exit; right — (a) story of life, (b) b…

Q.3 (A) Read the following extract and do the given activities : (5 marks)

A1. Read the words in the given clouds. Match them with what they signify. (2) [Two word-clouds: left — (1) Stage, (2) Characters, (3) Entry, (4) Exit; right — (a) story of life, (b) birth, (c) life, (d) roles of humans, (e) death.]

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.

A2. Read the extract and complete the table : (2) [Table with columns ‘Ages of Man’, ‘Role’, ‘Qualities/Actions’; rows ‘1st’ and ‘3rd’.]

A3. Identify the figure of speech in the following line : (1) ‘The whining school boy ..................’