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Today we are going to tell you Poetry – 7.Report of an Adjudged Case.
7. Report of an Adjudged Case Poetry
Class – 10 EM
Q.1.Read the stanza and answer the following questions-
1.In behalf of the Nose, it will quickly appear,
And your lordship ; he said will undoubtedly find
That the nose has had spectacles always in wear ,
Which amounts to possession time out of mind.
Q.1. Write the Name of the poem .
Ans. The name of the poem is ‘Report of an adjudged Case’.
Q.2. Who Spoke in behalf of the Nose?
Ans. To tongue spoke in behalf of the Nose.
Q.3.How did he address the judge ?
Ans. He addressed the judge as ‘Your Lordship’.
Q.4.Give the rhyme schme of the stanza.
Ans. a b a b.
Q.5.Who is ‘he’ in above extract ?
(1) Eyes (2) Ears (3) Nose (4) Tongue
Ans. (4) Tongue
Q.6. To Whom is ‘he’ addressing in the extract ?
(1) Eyes (2) Ears (3) Nose (4) Tongue
Ans. (2) Ears
Q.7. In whose favour is the argument given by ‘he’ ? what is he argument ?
Ans. The argument is given in favour of the Nose . The argument is that the Nose always wears the spectacles and hence. It is always in possession of them.
Poetry – 7.Report of an Adjudged Case
Q.2.Read the stanza and answer the following questions-
- Then shifting has side (as a lawyer knows how).
He pleaded again in behalf of the eyes,
But what were his arguments few people know,
For the court did not think they were equally wise .
Q.1. Write the name of the poet of this stanza.
Ans. William Cowper is the poet of this stanza.
Q.2. What do the lawyer know best?
Ans. The Lawyers know how to shift their sides.
Q.3. In whose behalf did the lawyer plead again?
Ans. The lawyer pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes.
Q.4. What did the court think about his arguments ?
Ans. The court thought that the lawyer’s arguments were not equally wise.
Q.3.Read the stanza and answer the following questions-
Between Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose,
The spectacles set them unhappily wrong;
The point in dispute was as all the world knows,
To which the said spectacles ought to belong.
Questions :
(a) The Dispute was between :
(i) Ear and Eyes (ii) Eyes and Tongue
(iii) Nose and Ear (iv) Nose and Eyes
Ans. (iv) Nose and Eyes
(b) The object due to which the dispute arose was :
(i) Trousers (ii) Spectacles (iii) Scissors (iv) Shirt
Ans. (ii) Spectacles
(c) What was the point of dispute ?
Ans. The point of dispute between the nose and eyes was that to whom of the two , the spectacles belonged.
7. Poetry Report of an Adjudged Case Poetry
Poetry – 7.Report of an Adjudged Case