Chapter 12: Indian Weavers Textbook Solutions

NIOS Class 10 English Chapter 12 Question Answer

INTEXT QUESTIONS 12.1

Answer the following questions.

1. Complete the following sentences:

The weavers are weaving the cloth for _____________. They are compared to____________ because of the similarity of colour i.e. blue.

Ans: (1) an infant’s \ a baby’s garments; the wings of the halcyon bird

2. ‘Gay’ in line 2 means ‘bright’. Which mood of the weavers does it indicate? Tick the right answer:

a. of cheerfulness

b. of frustration

c. of sadness

Ans: a. of cheerfulness

3. What is the similarity between morning time of the day and the birth of a child?

Ans: Morning is the beginning of the day; the birth of a child is the beginning of life.

INTEXT QUESTIONS 12.2

Answer the following questions.

1. What are the weavers weaving?

Ans: The wedding veil of a queen.

2. What time of the day is it?

Ans: Beginning of the night.

3. We wear colours that reflect our mood. Give two examples.

Ans: Different interpretations are possible – marriages take place at night or the day is over, just as the innocence of childhood is over.

INTEXT QUESTIONS 12.3

Answer the following questions.

1. What time is indicated through the phrase ‘moonlight chill’?

Ans: Midnight

2. What is the similarity between death and cold night?

Ans:

Death brings sadness; a cold night is unpleasant
Death is the end of life, just as night is the end of day

3. ‘Chill’ here means ‘unpleasant cold’. Which mood of the weavers does it indicate?

Tick the right answer:

a. of disappointment

b. of frustration

c. of sadness

Ans: c. of sadness

12.3 APPRECIATION

A) Find the simile in stanza 2 and complete the statement:

The _____________ is compared to _____________ both are bright and colourful.

Ans: (A) Similies in lines-

‘Like the plumes of a peacock, purple and green

we weave the marriage veils of a queen.’

the marriage veil of a queen, the plumes of peacock

B) Is there any similarity between the following pairs? Write complete phrases indicating similies.

a) life and sea

b) rain and music

Ans:

a) chirping of a bird as shrill/musical as a whistle.
b) life as deep as sea
c) rain as rhythmic as music

2. Write the objects of comparisons for the following:

a) as cold as _____________

b) as hot at ______________

c) as deep as ____________

Ans:

a) As cold as ice/cucumber
b) As hot as chillies/a desert
c) As deep as an ocean

LET US LEARN NEW WORDS 12.1

A. Put the following words in two lists. Refer to a dictionary if you are not sure.

teacher, grocer, preacher, carpenter, engineer, driver, tailor, manager, potter, painter, actor, doctor, author.

Ans: Words with suffix: Teacher, preacher, engineer, driver, manager, potter, painter, actor

Root words: carpenter, tailor, grocer, author, doctor.

B. Given below are the words that express happy and sad feelings. Put the words expressing happy feelings in the happy face and the words expressing sad feelings in the sad face. Refer to a dictionary, if you do not know the meaning of any of these words.

sad, glad, delighted, depressed, excited, gloomy, dejected, joyous, downcast, cheerful, annoyed, miserable, jubilant, thrilled.

Ans:

Happy	Sad
glad, delighted, excited, joyous, cheerful, jubilant, thrilled.	Sad, depressed, gloomy, dejected, downcast, annoyed, miserable,

TERMINAL QUESTIONS

1. In this poem, the poet is describing the three stages of life. She relates them to dresses and their colours. She also compares the changes in life to the changes in a day. Complete the blanks on the basis of your understanding of the poem.

Ans:

(A) birth/childhood, blue
(B) evening, youth/marriage
(C) death, white

2. The words/phrases that suggest different moods in the poem:

funeral, marriage veil, shroud, break of day, purple and green, white, garment, gay, dead man, solemn and still, bright, plumes of a peacock

Put these expressions in two columns:

a) Words/expressions conveying joy

b) Words/expressions conveying sorrow

Ans:

Words/expressions conveying joy – marriage veil, break of day, purple and green, garment gay, bright, plumes of a peacock
Words/expressions conveying sorrow – funeral, shroud, white, dead man, solemn and still.

3. The poem has strong imagery. In other words, when we listen to it or read it, we are able to create a clear picture in our mind like an image of an infant wearing blue clothes. Listen to the poem again and write down the images created in your mind. The underlined sentence above is one example of an image.

Ans: