English Literature 2023 ICSE Specimen Paper Sec C Solved

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Solutions of ICSE Class 10 English Literature Sec-C Specimen Paper 2023

Board	ICSE
Class	10th (x)
Subject	Literature in English
Topic	Specimen Paper Solved
Syllabus	Revised Syllabus
Session	2022-23
Section-C	PROSE (Treasure Trove)
Max mark	80

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ICSE 2023 EXAMINATION SPECIMEN QUESTION PAPER

LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (ENGLISH PAPER — 2)

Maximum Marks: 80

Time allowed: Two hours
Answers to this Paper must be written on the paper provided separately.
You will not be allowed to write during the first 15 minutes.
This time is to be spent in reading the question paper.
The time given at the head of this Paper is the time allowed for writing the answers.

The paper has four Sections.
Section A is compulsory — All questions in Section A must be answered.
You must attempt one question from each of the Sections B, C and D and one other question from any Section of your choice.
The intended marks for questions or parts of questions are given in brackets [ ].

English Literature 2023 ICSE Specimen Paper Sec D Solved

(Answer one or more questions from this Section.)

PROSE – SHORT STORIES
(Treasure Trove — A Collection of ICSE Poems and Short Stories)

Question 4: Read the extract from Ray Bradbury’s short story, ‘All Summer in a Day’ given below and answer the questions that follow:

The girl standing in the open, held out her hand

“Oh look, look,” she said, trembling.

They came slowly to look at her opened palm.

In the center of it, cupped and huge, was a single raindrop. She began to cry,

looking at it. They glanced quietly at the sun.

“Oh. Oh”

(i) How old were ‘they’? Where were they living? What had they been doing until the girl called their attention to the raindrop?

(ii) Mention any three ways in which their lives on this planet differed from life on earth.

(iii) Why does the girl begin to cry when she looks at the raindrop?

(iv) Describe the dramatic change in the weather immediately after the raindrop fell.

(v) What feelings do ‘they’ experience at the end of the story? What had they done earlier that made them feel this way?

Answer:

(i) The narrator was twelve and his brother fourteen year old and they lived in a small village.

(ii) The everyday life on this planet differs from life on Earth because it is continuously raining on Venus for seven years due to the dense clouds. The Sun is visible only once in seven years, and that also only for an hour or two. The people there lived underground because of the water on the ground everywhere.

(iii) The girls started wailing when she felt a raindrop in her cupped hands. And looking at that raindrop she started crying since she could realise the end of their brief summer in their life. They realised that it would start raining again. Soon the sun faded away behind the stir of mist. Their smiles had vanished as a cold wind began to blow.

(iv) After rain drop fell weather change dramatically, the sun faded behind the mist and a cold wind started with a bloom of thunder and lightning began while sky became dark as mid night. after that the sound of heavy downpour resumed and its sound like vast avalanche.

(v)At the end of story Children felt guilty themselves. They have locked the Margot in the closest out of jealously and not allowed to her to see the sun. Such made them feel these way.

Question 5: Read the following extract from Hans Christian Anderson’s story, ‘The Little Match Girl’ and answer the questions given below:

So the little girl walked about the streets on her naked feet, which were red and blue with cold. In her old apron she carried a great many matches and she had a packet of them in her hand as well.

(i) Who was ‘she? What can you conclude about her condition from the above description?

(ii) What time of the year was it? Why did she not want to go home?

(iii) What did she use the matches for? What happened when she lit the first match?

(iv) Whom did she love dearly? What did she say when this person appeared before her?

(v) What happened to the little girl at the end of the story? Would you consider this a happy ending or a sad one? Give one reason for your answer.

Answer:

(i) She’ is Kezia, the little girl who was afraid of her father. Kezia is bare feeted in the brutal cold as she has lost her oversized footwear while crossing street. She is forced and threatened to sell matchsticks by her father. Little girl, Kezia was scared because she was not able to sell any matchsticks that night. If she went home without any money, she would be beaten by her father.

(ii) New Year’s Eve on a particularly cold day. ‘Most terribly cold it was; it snowed and was nearly quite dark. The girl did not dare to go home because she was not able to sell any of the matches. It was the Christmas eve and she didn’t receive any money. She was also afraid of her father who would beat her for this. She decided not to go home.

(iii) She was trying to sell matches to earn money as she belongs to a poor family. When she lighted the first match it seemed to give a warm, bright light, like a little candle. It was really a wonderful light. It seemed to the little girl that she was sitting by a large iron stove, with polished brass feet and a brass ornament.

(iv) She loved her grandmother dearly. When her grandmother appeared before her, she requested her to take her with her. This was because she feared that her grandmother would disappear as soon as the match burns out.

(v) Though the ending of the story is sad, it proves happy for the little girl as she finally gets to be with her beloved late grandmother, away from hunger, poverty and grief.

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