12th English Unit 4 Online Test – Old Book

Explanation:- Johnson was the first English lexicographer to use citations  and a method that greatly influenced the style of future dictionaries

Explanation:- He calls the dictionary writers unhappy mortals because, dictionary writing is a tedious work and most of the people would not attempt it and even if they attempt they will not be praised for it

Explanation:- Johnson says that people who undertake lower employment jobs should not expect praise from others

Explanation:- Dictionary compilation and writing is a tedious job as one has to refer a lot and also one may not get good money for dictionary publication

Explanation:- Johnson says dictionary writing as lower employment job as it is not a good paid job

Explanation:- Johnson had dedicated his dictionary compilation to the country as it would bring honours to his country when the learned men refer to his dictionary to explore truth

Explanation:- Animated means – excited, hype, wishing

Explanation:- A dictionary is something that will stand out as reference for ages and a lexicographer can only include words of his time and his past times. Words get added up each day. So no dictionary can be perfect

Explanation:- Many people do not attempt to write a dictionary as it is a tedious job and this made Johnson to try it

Explanation:- Johnson aimed to publish dictionary- first of its kind which no one had attempted

Explanation:- Dilemma- means- confusion

Explanation:- Credible= someone to be believed, convincing

Credulous= simple, acceptable

Explanation:- King Lear, Julius Caesar, Timon of Athens are all tragedies play of Shakespeare. ‘Twelfth night’ –is a comedy play

Explanation:- A negative sentence should include words like no, never, not

Explanation:- While converting to positive sentence- the negative word should be removed and positive meaning should be framed

Explanation:- “Have, Do,Be-verbs” are all primary auxiliaries. “Can, could, shall, may” etc.. are modal auxiliaries

Explanation:- “Be-verbs”- include, is, was, are, were. Here She was playing guitar would be apt

Explanation:- Has takes does form.

Explanation:- Should- give meaning of compulsorily, necessacity

Explanation:- Must- gives the meaning of compulsion, law, to be obeyed

Explanation:- VK Gokak was a Kannada language writer and a scholar of English. Was awarded ‘Jnanpith award in 1990’ for his epic “Bharatha sindhu Rashmi”

Explanation:- The poem addresses English language as a supreme language that helped Indians to reach global

Explanation:- The poem speaks high of English language that came to rescue of Indians for them to flourish in literature field

Explanation:- English language has helped Indian minds flourish and learn so the poet expresses his admiration for English language

Explanation:- The poet requests the readers to get used to English language and use it for the development of literature

Explanation:- Like Leech which purifies the impure blood ,English language also removes the impurities in the Indian minds and makes their soul pure

Explanation:- English language is compared to winged creature which is not so in reality

Explanation:- Poet makes a biblical reference- so it is a allusion

Explanation:- English words are compared to bees.

Explanation:- English words are referred to as  fire for it has removed the impurities in Indian minds and purified souls of Indians with the knowledge

Explanation:- English language is called as dawn- as it has bought light to the education and social life of Indians

Explanation:- Like plenty of stars –English language has so many words which are countless

Explanation:- English language will keep developing and there is no fading for it-says VK Gokak

Explanation:- Rudyard kipling was born in Bombay and went To England and got citizenship. He was the first Indian English writer to be awarded Nobel prize. He had written famous ‘Jungle book stories, many poems, short stories, novel ect….

Explanation:- The story starts with a setting of beginning of world, where animals work for man

Explanation:- Camel is called a howler. Howler-is someone who is a joker, who talks about stupid thing. The camel always says “Hump, Hump” as excuse when called for work

Explanation:- The camel always says “Hump, Hump” as excuse when called for work

Explanation:- Djinn- is a in charge of all deserts. He had decided to preach a lesson to camel with his magic trick

Explanation:- All animals were working and Oxen was ploughing the fields for man. So he called Camel to plough along with him

Explanation:- All animals were working for man, in the beginning of the world. But camel was giving excuses as it was lazy to work. So all the other animals called camel to work along with them

Explanation:- The camel went and lived in the middle of the desert only then nobody would call him to work.

Explanation:- The other animals were irritated by the attitude of camel as it showed no interest nor respect for the call of other animals to work with them`

Explanation:- The horse complained to Djinn- in-charger of all deserts about the careless attitude of camel not to work and about the rude behaviour camel expresses when called for work

Explanation:- Djinn decided to play with the camel by punishing him with his magic. He created a big puffing hump on camel’s back

Explanation:- When the animals complained about camel to man, man allotted the work of camel to the animals. This made them anger

Explanation:- Djinn decided to play with the camel by punishing him with his magic. He created a big puffing hump on camel’s back

Explanation:- Camel got its punishment for its laziness towards work and its behaviour towards animals when called for work

Explanation:- Camel was not able to catch up with the lost three days

Explanation:- All animals started to work from Monday, the camel did not work for three days. After Djinn punishment, it started to work only from thursday

Explanation:- The story implies that laziness to work is a bad behaviour and it is to be punished