OMNI GYAN

 A DRIVE IN A MOTOR CAR 1. The author said so because the driver had received two full half hour lessons in driving and she was confident of driving the car directly on the road as there was n obody to take a driving test. When the author‟s family members asked in unison how fast the vehicle would go and that whether it could run fifty miles an hour, the driver said those given lines. 2. The author gave us details of the second windscreen because this was a special feature which one would not find in cars today. 3. The driver was referred to as „the ancient sister‟ because of the type of dress she had worn before driving. She had put on her driving gloves and tied a scarf over her head which showed the driving fashion of an older period. 4. The rubber bulb of the horn was pressed quite often in order to avoid collision with the human beings. It was pressed every time they passed a human being, whether it was a butcher on his bicycle or any pedestrian strolling on the pavement. 5. ...

  THE YELLOW FACE 1.       According to Sherlock Homes, the man who left the pipe in his house must have a high value for it because he preferred to repair the pipe twice than buying a new one which would have cost him much less. He was a muscular man, left handed with an excellent set of teeth, he was quite careless in his habits and did not practice economy. 2.       Holmes learnt the man’s name because it was written on the lining of his hat. 3.       The man was hesitant to discuss his problem because he thought that it was not appropriate to discuss about his wife with two complete strangers. 4.       Holmes’ provisional theory was that the woman was married in America and when her husband contracted some disease, she left him and fled to England, changed her name, and began a new life by showing her second husband the death certificate of some man whose identity she h...

  THE YARN OF THE NANCY BELL 1.      The man claimed to be the cook, the captain of the ship, the mate of Nancy brig, a boatswain, midshipmite and the crew of the ship called ‘Nancy’. 2.      The line in the poem which tells us that the man was generally unfortunate is: “And there on reef we come to grief / Which has often occurred to me. 3.      After the ship has struck the reef, there were only ten men left on the ship. 4.      The decided by drawing a lot as to who was to go first. 5.      The lines mean that they both would die, so one must survive, and the one who would die would lie on the other’s hold. 6.      The cook felt that he had more of a right to stay alive because he was a professional expert and he could cook better than the other. 7.      When the cook was pouring the ingredients like salt, pepper, chopped oni...

 THE POWER OF MUSIC (Class-IX) 1. Bhisma Lochan Sharma sings during summer season. His songs can be heard all over from hill to plain and from Delhi to Burma. 2. Bhisma Lochan Sharma sings as if he has put his life at a stake or in other words risked his life. He also sings as if he determined to sing regardless of what might happen. He does not care for anything on his way and just goes on singing. 3. The people on the road are awestruck when Bhisma Lochan Sharma starts singing. They are trampled in panic and start running about in a disorganized way, trying to escape from the strain of Bhisma’s song. They plead him to stop his song immediately or else they will die. 4. Bhisma’s songs do not only have their effect on the humans, but also animals. The bullock-carts are overturned, horses neigh in panic. But Bhisma passes by unconcerned. The poor animals start screaming in annoyance the moment his singing starts. The fishes dive deep into the lake in search of peace. 5. The moment B...

ODE TO AUTUMN Answers (Text-Book Questions) 1.        The expressions in the first stanza which tells us of the abundance and ripeness of the season are “Seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness, conspiring with him how to load and bless, the fruit vines that round the thatch- eaves run, and fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.” 2.          The expressions which clearly show examples of personification are – “Close bosom friend of the maturing sun, to bend with apples the moss’d cottage trees.” 3.         Autumn is directly addressed in the second stanza as "thee." The speaker considers autumn during harvest time. Again personified, the speaker thinks of autumn sitting on a granary floor as the grain is being harvested. Then the speaker considers autumn asleep, made drowsy by the perfume of the poppies. Finally, the autumn is watching the apples in a "cyder-press squeezing the juice from apples." Sin...