ANALYSIS
The author went to a studio for having a photograph taken. The photographer was very enthusiastic. He was a man bending down and was dressed in a grey suit. He had a vague eye of student of natural sciences. The appearance of a photographer was known to all.
(Para 1)
The photographer asked the author to wait and he waited for an hour. Then the photographer opened the inner-door and asked the author to enter the studio. He sat down in the room where sunlight was coming through a sheet of glass frosted (not transparent). The photographer placed a machine in the middle of the room and crept into it from behind. (Para 2)
The photographer was behind the machine for a second and then he came out and pulled the cotton sheet in the skylight and the window panes with a hooked stick for more light and air.
(Paras 3 & 4)
Then he crept into the machine again and threw a black cloth over himself. For sometime, there was complete silence. When he came out he looked grave. Comment on the features
The photographer then commented on the features of the author, the face was wrong; the face would be three fourths of the size of the photograph itself – a huge head. The author was glad to find that the photographer had a human aspect. The author continued that very few faces were hard, narrow and limited. If they became three quarters, they got wide and large. (Paras 5-7)
Ordering the author about the movement of the features The photographer did not listen to what he said. He came and turned his head sideways. The author thought he meant to kiss him. But he twisted his face as far as it went and then looked at it. He said heaving a sight that he did not like the head. He went behind the machine and asked the author to open the mouth. When he started to do it, he ordered to close it. Then he commented that the ears were bad and asked him to bend down the ears. He asked him to move the eyes under the lids, put the hands on the knees and turn the face just a little upwards. He was satisfied and then ordered him to expand the lungs, curve the neck (কুঁজোর মত বাঁকান), contract the face. He commented that his face was somewhat too full.
The author’s retort
The author turned round and retorted (উত্তর দেওয়া) that his face was his face and he had lived with it for forty years. He knew the defects of his face. He knew it was not correctly drawn. It was not made for him, but still it was his face. His voice became cracked but still he continued that his mouth, his ears were his own. The photographer’s machine was narrow. Then he stood up from the seat. Photograph was taken
The photographer pulled the string and the photograph was taken. He said that the features were caught in the moment of the author’s liveliness (সজীবতা).
The author said bitterly that he could not make his features lively. He wanted to see the picture.
The photographer said that he would have to develop the negative. He would
show the proof of the photo on Saturday. The author’s disappointment on seeing the proof of the photograph. His features were altered
When the author went to the shop on Saturday, the photographer took him inside the studio with pride and gravity. He unfolded the proof of a large photograph. The author wondered if the photo was his. The eyes were not his eyes; the eyebrows were not his. The photographer answered that the eyes were retouched and eyebrows were removed. The photographers had a process of putting in new ones (called delphide). He had applied the hair away from the brow. He did not like the hair low on the skull.
The author was equally surprised and amused. The photographer went on saying that he wanted to see the hair on the surface and make a new brow. His mouth was also adjusted. The ears could also be removed by the process of sulphide.
Now the author began to reply with vigour and scorn that he wanted a photograph, a picture that would look like what he was. He wanted to see his original and true likeness. The picture would be kept by his friends after his death for remembrance. But he did not get what he wanted. He asked the photographer to take the deadly work and do whatever he liked with his various processes and keep it for himself and his friends. They might value it but for him it was of no value. The author wept for disappointment and left the place.
TEXTUAL QUESTIONS
Answer the following Questions:
Q.1. Is the appearance of the photographer different from that other photographers? How do you know?
Ans. The photographer as described by the writer is a drooping man with grey suit and dim eye of a Botanist or Zoologist. Most of the photographers have this appearance because he is accustomed to taking photographs.
Q.2. The photographer rolled a machine into the middle of the room the machine? What is
Ans. The photographer’s machine i.e., big camera with wheels.
Q.3. The photographer says the author’s is wrong. In what sense is the face wrong?
Ans. The face of the author is not photogenic i.e., does not look well in the photo.
Q.4. “Stop, I said with emotion but, I think with dignity” – Why does the author say ‘I think’? Think about the meaning of the word ‘dignity’. Ans. The author says ‘I think because he wants to convey the idea that his emotion
did not make him graceless. Dignity has the sense of grace and politeness. Q.5. I know it’s out of drawing. What does it mean here? What does the author mean by the statement?
Ans. Out of drawing means not correctly drawn. It means that his face is not well- shaped. It has faults.
Q.6. “I was conscious of a break in my voice”. This means:
(a) He paused for a while in his speech. (b) His voice was not clear.
(c) He was about to cry.
Ans. Break in my voice means his voice was not clear (b).
Q.7. When the author returns to see the proof he notices ‘a certain pride’ in the photographer’s manner. What is the photographer proud of? Does the author know the reason right now? Or does he find out later?
Ans. The pride in the manner of the photographer is due to his artistic work out of the photo. The author found it later when the photographer proudly said how he had retouched his eyes and removed the eye brows. It is the pride of an artist.
Q.8. The author reacts with bitterness to the photographer’s remarks on
‘retouching’ the photo. Is the author’s bitterness perceived by the photographer? Support your answer with evidence from the text. Ans. The author is ironical when he said ‘fine’ and added that his eyebrows were not like that. The photographer gave a momentary glance at the author’s face trying probably to make out the reaction of the author. But he did not fully perceive the
reaction. In his pride of artistic work he continued describing how he removed the
eyebrows etc. Q.9. ‘Listen’, I interrupted, drawing myself up and animating my features to their full extent and speaking with a withering contempted that would have blasted the man on the spot.
Why does the author say ‘animating my features to their full extent”? Does this refer to any remark made earlier by the photographer or the author ?
Ans. The author says ‘animating my features to their full extent to mean that he inspired himself or made himself excited fully. “I caught the features in a
The remark was earlier made by the photographer moment of animation” Later the author made the remark: “You didn’t think I could animate them” (the features).
Q.10. The author says he spoke with withering scorn. What does this mean? Ans. Withering scorn means deadly contempt i.e., the contempt that would blast a man.
Q.11. Go on; then, with your brutal work:
What is the ‘brutal’ work? Why is it ‘brutal’?
Ans. Brutal work refers to the photograph of the author It is brutal because it was not his likeness. His face, eyes, ears have been retouched and reconstructed.
Q.12. “Take your negative….. dip it in sulphide, bromide, oxide, cowhide”. Look at the bold words. Are any of them names of chemical substances?
Ans. Cowhide is not the name of any chemical substance. It is mentioned tauntingly to show the author’s contempt for all the chemical processes by which the photographer has retouched and reconstructed his face, eyes etc.
II. Answer the following questions:
Q.1. The photographer’s name is not mentioned anywhere. He is throughout “the photographer’. Is there any significance in this?
Ans. The author does not mean any particular photographer. He means the photographer as a class (in general).
Q.2. What kind of photograph does the author want?
Ans. The author wants his likeness, his picture with his features as they are – his face, his eyes, his ears.
Q.3. What kind of photograph does the photographer try to give the author ?
Ans. The photographer tries to give the picture of the author as he sees the features of the author in his vision or imagination. The face, eyes and ears are retouched, adjusted and reconstructed according to his idea or imagination. It is an artist’s work and not a photographer’s work.
- The author compares the photographer’s eyes to ‘the dim eye of a natural scientist’. What else is there in common between the photographer and the natural scientist?
Ans. The photographer has the capacity to study minutely the features and to adjust them rightly just as the Natural scientists minutely the features of plants and animals. (Botanists, Zoologists) study
Q.5. What is the effect of the author’s narration on us, the readers ? Does it make us laugh? Or does it move us to pity and sympany? Support your answer with evidence from the text.
Ans. The narration at first strikes us an amusing piece. The fuss that the photographer makes, ordering the author about sitting, posturing and commenting on his face, eyes, ears excites our laughter. But at the end when the author sees how his features are retouched and altered he breaks into tears. He wants a likeness of himself, but he gets a completely distorted picture of himself. It is a horrible experience for the author and the readers are moved to pity.
Composition
Q.1. Suppose you visit a photo studio to have your photo taken. Will you have the same experience as the author had? The following points of comparison may be useful:
(a) the arrangements in the studio.
(b) The photographer’s attitude to his job and to the person who wants to be photographed.
(c) The photographer’s remarks and instructions while taking the photo.
(d) the facilities for developing and retouching.
Ans. The essay, With the Photographer is a comic sketch paradying the fuss that a photographer makes while taking a photo. However, the experience of one who wants to be photographed is almost similar to that narrated by the author.
A photographer is often a drooping man with dim eyes. When I visit a studio for having my photo taken, I am kept waiting for a long time. Then I am called in an inside room which is faintly lighted beams coming from the skylight. There is a machine (camera on a high position). He tries to brighten the room. He is very serious in his work and he looks upon me as an inexperienced person.
The photographer hides himself behind the black cloth spread over the camera and looks through it. He is fastidious about setting right the hair on the forehead, about the set of the face, eyes etc. He instructs me how I should keep my face. He twists the face, head, mouth etc. He remarks that the face is wrong, eyes, ears are bad. He means that the face is not photogenic and so he has to do a lot of retouchings and
adjustments. The studio has the facilities for developing the negative and showing the proof. Chemical substances like delphide, sulphide, bromide, oxide are used for processing the picture.
Q.2. The photographer finds many things ‘wrong’ with the author’s appearance. What are these things and how does the photographer try to correct them? Ans. (a) The photographer finds the face ‘quite wrong’ and he tries to photograph
is three-quarters full.
(b) The eyes are bad. He retouches them to come out splendidly. He asks the author to roll the eyes in under the lids.
(c) The eyebrows are removed. The hair is carried away from the eyebrow.
(d) The mouth is low; it is adjusted a little.
(e) The ears are bad and the photograph will fix them right in the print.
Grammar
| Verb | Past Tense | Past Participle |
|---|---|---|
| make | made | made |
| animate | animated | animated |
| do | did | done |
| stagger | staggered | staggered |
| bite | bit | bitten, bit |
| draw | drew | drawn |
| dip | dipped | dipped |
| depict | depicted | depicted |
| fling | flung | flung |
| dive | dived | dived |
1. Change the following into reported speech.
‘Listen’, I interrupted, ‘I came here for a photograph, a picture, something which -bad though it seems would have looked like me. I wanted something that would depict my face as Heaven gave it to me, humble though the gift may have been, I wanted something that my friends might keep after my death, to reconcile them to my loss. It seems that I was mistaken. What I wanted is no longer done.Ans. The author interrupted the remarks of the photographer and said that he came to the studio for a photograph, a picture, something which bad though it seemed would have looked like him. He wanted something that would depict his face as Heaven gave it to him, humble though the gift might have ha been, he wanted something that his friends might keep after his death, to reconcile themselves to his loss. It seemed that he was mistaken; what he wanted was no longer done.
2. Vocabulary
Match the words in A with their meanings in B.
| A | B | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| (a) boundless | (ix) without limits | boundless — without limits (ix) |
| (b) bitingly | (v) sharply | bitingly — sharply (v) |
| (c) contract | (viii) make small | contract — make small (viii) |
| (d) grave | (x) serious | grave — serious (x) |
| (e) animate | (vii) give life to | animate — give life to (vii) |
| (f) severely | (i) sternly | severely — sternly (i) |
| (g) brutal | (iii) cruel | brutal — cruel (iii) |
| (h) beckoned | (vi) called | beckoned — called (vi) |
| (i) crawl | (iv) move slowly | crawl — move slowly (iv) |
| (j) acknowledge | (ii) admit | acknowledge — admit (ii) |
MODEL QUESTIONS
Passage A
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow :
‘No’, said the photographer, with a momentary glance at my face, the eyebrows e removed. We have a process, now the delphide – for putting in new ones. You’ll tice here where we’ve applied it to carry the hair away from the brow. I don’t like e hair low on the skull.
QUESTIONS
(i) Why did the photographer give momentary glance? Why are the eyebrows removed ? What is the process suggested? Where did the photographer apply the process?
(ii) The photographer beckoned me.
Choose the correct meaning of beckoned from the following alternatives:inqoo
asked, (ii) ordered,
(iii) called.
(i) (iii) 1 caught the features in a moment of animation.
What is meant by ‘animation’ in the context?
(iv) I wanted something that would depict my face as Heaven gave it to me.
What does the speaker mean by ‘as Heaven gave it to me’?
(v) Your brutal work.
Why does the speaker use the adjective ‘brutal’?
(vi) What are the chemical substances referred to by the photographer?
(vii) The author spoke to the photographer with bitterness. At the end, he broke into tears. Why did the author react in this way?
(viii) What is the difference between photography and painting?
(ix) The photographer, pursing his lips…….. Is the word ‘pursing’ pronounced like ‘cursing’ or ‘putting’?
(x) Use the word ‘hump’ as adjective:
ANSWERS
(i) (a) The photographer gave momentary glance at the author’s face in order to assess the reaction of the author.
(b) Eyebrows are removed because the hair fell on the brow.
(c) The chemical process delphide is suggested.
(d) The photographer applied the chemical substance to carry the hair from the brow.
(ii) Beckoned means called.
(iii) Animation means inspiration in the context.
(iv) As Heaven gave it to me means my natural face (face with which I am born).
(v) ‘Brutal’ in the context means cruel. The photographer changed the face, eyes and ears of the author. It is a cruel act of distortion.
(vi) The photographer refers to delphide, sulphide. The author adds bromide, oxide etc.
How T
(vii) When the photographer spoke about the retouching, removing and reconstructing his features in the photo, the author was becoming angry and he spoke with bitter feelings.
At the end he broke into tears at the sight of the photo which is not his likeness. He wanted a picture so that his friends might keep it after his death and reconcile them to his loss. But that expectations are lost.
(viii) Photography is an exact picture of reality. Painting is a picture coloured by the imagination or idea of the painter. Retouching alterations are allowed in a piece of painting.
(ix) The word ‘pursing’ is pronounced like cursing.
(x) The boy has humped back.
Passage B
I sat down in a beam of sunlight filtered through a sheet of factory cotton hung gainst a frosted skylight.
QUESTIONS
(a) Who sat down?
(b) What is the meaning of ‘beam of sunlight’?
(c) How is beam of light filtered ?
(d) How is filtered to be explained?
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a) Use ‘beam’ as verb.
(b) Give the present indefinite form of ‘sat’?
(c) Give the noun form of frosted?
ANSWERS
- (a) The man who wants to be photographered sat down.
(b) ‘Beam of sunlight’ means ray of sunlight.
(c) Beam of light passes through a filter.
(d) Filter is any substance through which liquid, smoke, air is passed to remove suspended impurities or to remove solids.
2.
(a) The light beamed.
(b) Sit (Present tense of sat).
(c) Frost Frost is falling thick and fast.
Passage C
“The ears are bad,” he said; “droop them a little more. Thank you. Now the eyes. Roll them in under the lids, put the hands on he knees, please, and turn the face just a little upwards. Yes, that’s better. Now just expand the lungs! So! And hump the neck that’s it just contract the face, it’s just a trifle too lull, but -” I swung myself round on the stool.
QUESTIONS
- (a) To whom it is said?
(b) Who gives the instructions?
(c) What does the photographer say about the eyes of the person to be photographed?
(d) What does the photographer say about the hands and face?
(a)
- Give the meaning of the following words:
; (d) hump; (e) trifle; (f) lull
droop; (b) roll; (c) expand
- Use the following words in the way indicated and make a sentence with each.
(a) adjective form of droop.
(b) Adjective form of roll.
(c) Noun form of expand.
(d) Noun form of contract.
(e) Adjective form of trifle.
(f) Make a sentence with ‘lull’.
- Turn the face just a little upwards – Turn it into passive voice.
5. Use a word similar in pronunciation to ‘turn’.
ANSWERS
(a) It is said to the man who wants to be photographed.
(b) The photographer gives the instructions.
(c) The photographer asks the man to roll the eyes under the lids.
Passage E
The photographer beckoned me in. I thought he seemed quieter and graver than before. I think, too, there was a certain pride in his manner.
QUESTIONS
1.
(a) What is the meaning of ‘beckon’?
(b) How did the photographer look?
(c) What is the manner of the photographer?
- What are the positive degrees of ‘quieter’ and ‘graver’?
- What is the adjective form of ‘Pride’? Make a sentence. 4. Why was there a certain pride in the manner of the photographer?
- Give a word similar in sound to ‘pride’.
- The photographer beckoned me in turn it into passive voice.
- (a) ‘Beckon’ means call.
ANSWERS
(b) The photographer looked quieter and graver.
(c) There is a certain pride in his manner.
- Quiet and grave are the positive degrees.
- Proud The boy is proud of his results.
- There was a certain pride in his manner because the photographer retouched the features to make the face beautiful.
- ‘bride’ is the word similar in sound to pride.
- I was beckoned in by the photographer.
Passage F
“Fine,” I said; “but surely my eyebrows are not like that?” “No,” said the photographer, with a momentary glance at my face, “the eyebrows are removed. We have a process, now the delphide for putting in new ones. You’ll notice here where we’ve applied it to carry the hair away from the brow. I don’t like the hair low on the skull.” ettetilacer
QUESTIONS
1.
(a) Who said the passage?
(b) What is his reaction to seeing his photograph?
(c) What is the answer of the photographer?
(d) What was the process he has applied?
- Give the noun forms of the following words: remove, glance, apply.
- I don’t like the hair low on the skull use complex sentence.
ANSWERS
- (a) This is what the man said after looking at his photograph.
(b) His reaction is one of surprise. All his features have been retouched.
(c) The photographer said that the eyebrows were removed. Hair had been carried away from the brow. He did not like the hair low on the skull.
(d) The photographer had applied the process known as the delphide.
- Remove removal The removal of the hair is mourned. Glance glance He gave a glance at me.
Apply application – You should give more application to your studies.
- I don’t like that the hair should be low in the skull.
Passage G
“Listen”, I interrupted, myself up and animating my features to their full extent and speaking with a withering scorn that should have blasted the man on the spot. “I came here for a photograph, a picture, something which bad though it seems would have looked like me. I wanted something that would depict my face as Heaven gave it to me, humble though the gift may have been. I wanted something that my friends might keep after my death, to reconcile them to my loss.
QUESTIONS
- (a) Summarise the speech addressed to the photographer by the man when he found his features changed.
(b) What does the speaker mean by “animating the features”?
(c) Why was the man annoyed?
(d) What did he want from the photographer?
(e) Why did he want to be photographed?
(f) What are the features that have been retouched by the photographer?
(g) What is the meaning of ‘withering scorm’?
- Write sentences with:
(a) to the full extent.
(b) blasted.
(c) The noun form of ‘reconcile’.
(d) Use the word ‘humble’ as verb.
ANSWERS
- (a) The man said to the photographer that he wanted his likeness a picture of the face that God gave him. He did not want that his features should be changed. He wanted a picture of his face that his friends might keep after his death and remember him. The photographer changed the features according
to his method of ‘retouching’. (b) ‘Animating the features’ means making the features lively.
(c) The man was annoyed that the features of his face were totally changed by what the photographer said ‘retouching’. He wanted to have his photo. Retouching has changed his face.
(d) The man wanted just the photo of his face.
(e) The man wanted to be photographed so that men can see his photo after the death and become reconciled to the loss.
(1) The photographer retouched every feature of his face etc. eye, ear, eyebrows
(g) ‘Withering scorn’ means great contempt with the intention of humiliating.
2.
(a) The work has been done to the fullest extent. (b) He was blasted (censured) for his work.
(c) Reconciliation – The bank reconciliation was not done properly.
(d) His pride was humbled.
Passage H
“Stop” – I said with emotion but, I think, with dignity. “This face is my face. It is not yours; it is mine”.
QUESTIONS
- (a) When did the man ask the photographer to stop? Summarise what the
photographer said about his face.
(b) What did the man mean by the reply face is my face?……..
(c) Why did he say with emotion ?
(d) This face is my face….. It is not yours: it is mine”. joint it into a complex sentence.
ANSWERS
1.
(a) The man asked the photographer to stop his instructions about the features of his face. He did not like to hear the defects of his face.
The photographer instructed that the ears are bad. He asked the man to bend
down the ears, to roll the eyes under the lids, to turn the face upwards, to
expand the lungs and hump the neck, contract the face. (b) The man meant that the face is his and he wants his face to be photographed exactly.
(c) The man was emotionally touched by the references to the defects of his face and by hearing the instructions of the photographer.
(d) This face which is my face is not yours but mine.
Passage I
‘I want my photograph taken” I said. The photographer looked at me without enthusiasm. He was a drooping man in a grey suit, with the dim eye of a natural scientist. But there is no need to describe him. Everybody knows what a photographer is like.
QUESTIONS
(a) Why did the photographer look at the speaker without enthusiasm ?
(b) How did the photographer look like? zitte
c) Answer any one of the following groups:
(i) Frame a sentence using the noun form of the verb, ‘describe’.
(ii) Give the meaning of the word ‘drooping’.
(iii) Give a word similar in pronunciation to the word ‘dim’.
ANSWERS
(a) The photographer looked at the man without enthusiasm because he was occupied. ed.
(b) The photographer was a drooping man in a grey suit with the dim eye.
(c) (i) Give a description of the man.
(ii) Drooping means bending low.
(iii) ‘Slim’ or ‘rim’ is the word similar in pronunciation to ‘dim’.
Passage J
“I want my photograph taken” I said. The photographer looked at me without enthusiasm. He was a dropping man in a grey suit, with the dim eye of a natural scientist. But there is no need to describe him. Everybody knows what a photographer is like.
‘Sit there’ he said, ‘and wait. I waited an hour.
[B.U. (Sc.) 2005]
QUESTIONS
(a) How did the photographer look at the author?
(b) ‘The Photographer looked at me without enthusiasm. Here the word ‘enthusiasm’ means – (i) Curiosity, (ii) Interest, (iii) Passion.
Pick out the most appropriate answer from the alternatives given above.
(c) Attempt any one question from any of the two groups. (i) ‘I want my Photograph taken’, I said (Turn it into indirect speech),
(ii) Everybody knows what a photographer is like. (Make it a negative sentence).
ANSWERS
(a) The photographer looked at the man without enthusiasm.
(b) ‘Enthusiasm’ means interest.
(c) (i) I said that I want my photograph taken.
(ii) Nobody knows what a photographer is like.
Passage K
I came here for a photograph, a picture, something which bad though it seems would have looked like me. I wanted something that would depict my face as Heaven gave it to me, humble though the gift may have been. I wanted something that my friends might keep after my death, to reconcile them to my loss. It seems that I was mistaken. What I wanted is no longer done. Go on, then, with your brutal work.
QUESTIONS
1.
(a) What I wanted is no longer done’ – What was not done that the author wated?
(b) ‘Go on’ then, with your brutal work’ – What was the brutal work?
2.
Answer any one of the following:
(a) Frame a sentence using the noun of ‘reconcile’.
(b) Change into indirect speech ‘Go on, then, said the author.
(c) Which of the two words – ‘rift’ and ‘shift’ is similar to ‘gift in pronunciation?
ANSWERS
(a) The man wanted to have a photo about the photographer retouched his features and changed his face.
1.
(b) ‘Brutal work’ is the distortion of his face by retouching its features.
- (a) Noun form of reconcile is reconciliation.
The bank reconciliation was not done properly.
(b)
The author said to go on then.
(c) ‘Rift’ is similar to gift in pronunciation.
Passage L
But the photographer had ceased to listen. He came over and took my head in his hands and twisted it sideways. I thought he meant to kiss me, and I closed my eyes. But I was wrong. He twisted my face as far as it would go and then stood looking at it.
[B.U. (Sc.) 2006]
QUESTIONS
(a) Why did the speaker close his eyes?
(b) ‘But the photographer had ceased to listen’.
The word opposite in meaning to ‘ceased’ is
(i) Started, (ii) Stopped,
(iii) Resumed.
Pick out the most appropriate answer from the alternatives given above.
(c) Attempt any one question from any of the two Groups:
(i) But I was wrong.
(Make it a Negative Sentence)
(ii) He twisted my face.
(Change the voice)
ANSWERS
(a) The speaker closed his eyes because he thought that the photographer meant to kiss him.
(b) Stopped.
) (i). But I was not right. (c
(ii) My face was twisted by him.
Passage M
The photographer beckoned me in. I thought he seemed quieter and graver than before. I think, too, there was a certain pride in his manner. He unfolded the proof of a large photograph and we both looked at it in silence.
‘Is it me?’ I asked.
‘Yes’, he said quietly, ‘it is you’, and he went on looking at it.
The eyes’s, I said hesitatingly, ‘don’t look very much like mine.
[B.U. (Arts) 2006]
QUESTIONS
(a) What did the author think when the photographer beckoned him in ?
(b) ‘Yes’, he said quietly, ‘it is you’.- What did the photographer mean here?
(c) Answer any one of the following groups:
(i) Frame a sentence using the noun form of the adjective ‘certain’.
(ii) Give the meaning of the word ‘pride’.
(iii) Are ‘both’ and ‘booth’ similar in pronunciation?
ANSWERS
(a) He thought that the photographer seemed quieter and grover than before. There was a certain pride in his manner.
(b) The photographer meant the man who was to be photographed.
(c) (i) I know for certainty that it is me you mean.
(ii) ‘Pride’ means arrogance, thinking highly about oneself.
(iii) No, ‘both’ and ‘booth’ are not similar in pronunciation.
Passage N
But the photographer had ceased to listen. He came over and took my head in his hands and twisted it side ways. I thought he meant to kiss me, and I closed my eyes.
[B.U. (Arts) 2007]
QUESTIONS
(i) What did the photographer do after coming over to the speaker?
(ii) Why did the speaker close his eyes?
(iii) ‘But the photographer had ceased to listen’. Make it negative sentence.
ANSWERS
(i) The photographer twisted the head.
(ii) The man closed his eyes because he thought that the photographer would kiss him.
(iii) The photographer did not listen.
Passage O
‘Listen’, I interrupted, drawing myself up and animating my features to their full extent and speaking with a withering scorn that should have blasted the man on the spoť I came here for a photograph, a picture, something which-bad though it seems would have looked like me. I wanted something that would depict my face as Heaven gave it to me, humble though the gift may have been. I wanted something that my friends might keep after my death, to reconcile them to my loss.
[B.U. (Sc.) 2007]
QUESTIONS
(a) What was the mood of the writer when he interrupted the photographer? (b) What sort of photograph did the writer actually intend to have from the photographer? Hapep bine
(c) I wanted something that would depict my face. (Make it a compound sentence)
ANSWERS
(a) The writer was full of contempt when he interrrupted the photographer.
(b) The writer wanted an exact photo of his face.
(c) I wanted something and this would depict my face.
Passage P
‘Listen’, I interrupted, drawing myself up and animating my features to their full extent and speaking with a withering scorn that should have blasted the man on the spot. ‘I came here for a photograph, a picture, something which – bad though it seems would have looked like me. I wanted something that would depict my face as Heaven gave it to me, humble though the gift may have been. I wanted something that my friends might keep after my death, to reconcile them to my loss. It seems that I was mistaken. What I wanted is no longer done.’
[B.U. (Com.) 2008]
QUESTIONS
(a) Why does the author say ‘animating my features to their full extent?
(b) What kind of photograph does the author expect from the photographer? (c) Give the noun form of ‘animating’ and make a sentence of your own.
ANSWERS
(a) The author said because he wanted to admonish the man with full vigour.
(b) The author expected an exact photo of his face.
(c) ‘Animation’ He was full of animation when he spoke.