CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

AMANDA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!Stop that slouching and sit up straight, Amanda!3) In which of the following situations, the word ‘slouching’ cannot be used?
A
It is always taught that slouching is a bad practice
B
Slouching is something the teenagers mostly do these days
C
I have been taught to improve slouching in my work
D
All of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker is the parent, preferably her mother, who wants Amanda to act in an orderly manner. Amanda should not bite her nails, according to the speaker. Amanda should also stop hunching her head, as this will affect her posture, according to the speaker.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hunch: bend. Slouching: sitting in a lazy way. Languid: relaxed. Emerald: here, green color.

Detailed explanation-3: -Amanda is getting instructions from her parents, which become too much to handle for the small girl. She is told not to eat her nails and sit in a proper position. Amanda’s response to it is her work of imagination where she is a mermaid drifting effortlessly by the languid river.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: As most of the children do, Amands is bitting her nails. She has a bad habit of bitting nails and for that he got scolded by her mother.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer. (d) Literary device used in third line is Alliteration. ‘Stop that slouching and sit up straight’.

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