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Patol Babu, Film Star
Read the following extract and answer the questions by choosing from the alternatives given below.
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
(a) How did the mariners enter the silent sea?
(i) A storm drove them there.
(ii) The breeze stopped blowing and the sails dropped.
(iii) The Albatross took them there.
(iv) The helmsman steered the ship.
(b) Name the poem and the poet.
(i) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by P. B. Shelley
(ii) The Ancient Mariner by S.T. Coleridge
(iii) The Mariner and the Albatross by D. H. Lawrence
(iv) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by S.T. Coleridge
(c) Which poetic device is used in the above lines?
(i) Metaphor
(ii) Alliteration
(iii) Simile
(iv) Personification
(a) The breeze stopped blowing and the sails dropped
(b) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by S.T.Coleridge
(c) Alliteration
Some More Questions From Patol Babu, Film Star Chapter
What was the news that Nishikanto Ghosh gave Patol Babu?
How did Patol Babu react? Why?
Why had Patol Babu lost his first job in Calcutta?
How does Patol Babu reconcile to the dialogue given to him?
Who was Mr. Pakrashi? How do his words help Patol Babu in enacting his role?
How do we know that Patol Babu was a meticulous man?
Why did Mr. Mullick turn Patol Babu's request for a rehearsal?
What were the special touches that Patol Babu gave to his role to make it more authentic?
'I hope the part calls for some dialogue?' Who says this? Why does he/she ask this question?
'Were these people pulling his legs? Was the whole thing a gigantic hoax? A meek, harmless man like him, and they had to drag him into the middle of the city to make a laughing stock out of him. How could anyone be so cruel?' Why does Patol Babu have these thoughts?
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