composing enter promises dependent . From your understanding of the poem, answer the following questions briefly in a sentence or two. a) What is the world compared to? 12th - - Page b) “And they have their exits and their entrances” - What do the words ‘exits’ and ‘entrances’ mean?
c) What is the first stage of a human’s life? d) Describe the second stage of life as depicted by Shakespeare. e) How does a man play a lover’s role? f) Bring out the features of the fourth stage of a man as described by the poet.
g) When does a man become a judge? How? h) Which stage of man’s life is associated with the ‘shrunk shank’? i) Why is the last stage called second childhood?
. Explain the following lines briefly with reference to the context. a) “They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts,” b) “Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation”. c) “Is second childishness and mere oblivion; Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.” .
Read the poem once again carefully and identify the figure of speech that has been used in each of the following lines from the poem. a) “All the world's a stage” b) “And all the men and women merely players” c) “And shining morning face, creeping like snail” d) “Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,” e) “Seeking the bubble reputation” f) “His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide” g) “and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble” . Pick out the words in ‘alliteration’ in the following lines. a) “and all the men and women merely players” b) “And one man in his time plays many parts” c) “Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel.” .
Read the given lines and answer the questions that follow. a) Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. 12th - - All the World’s a Stage Page