Class 10 English Julius Caesar Summary and Important Questions
Summary Julius Caesar is the story of a man's personal dilemma over moral action, set against a backdrop of strained political drama. Julius Caesar, an able general and a conqueror, returns to Rome amidst immense popularity after defeating the sons of Pompey.…
Class 10 English Snake Summary and Important Questions
Summary The poem describes the encounter of the poet with a snake that came into his domain looking for water. On a hot day, a snake went to the poet's water trough to quench its thirst. The poet who was also the owner of the water trough came for the same…
Class 10 English The Rime Poetry Of The Ancient Mariner Summary and Important Questions
Summary Coleridge introduces his story by describing an old grey-bearded sailor who approaches three young men headed for a wedding celebration and compels one of them, the groom's next-of-kin, to hear his story. At first the intrusion is resented by the…
Class 10 English Ozymandias Summary and Important Questions
Summary 'Ozymandias' by P. B. Shelly is a sonnet describing the remnants of the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. The speaker describes a meeting with someone who has travelled to a place where ancient civilizations once existed. We know from the title that he's…
Class 10 English Virtually True Summary and Important Questions
Summary The story is about the world inside psycho-drive computer games which are played by the power of the mind and can be quite dangerous if someone gets trapped inside one of the games. The memory of Sebastian Shultz gets trapped inside his laptop when his…
Class 10 English Patol Babu Summary and Important Questions
Summary Sitalakanto Ray, or Patol Babu, had lost his clerical post with Hudson and Kimberley in Calcutta due to the cost-cutting measures during the war more than ten years ago. Since then, he had tried a number of different jobs, from running a store, to…
Class 10 English A Shady Plot Summary and Important Questions
Summary 'A Shady Plot' is a story within a story. The narrator is an author of short stories about ghosts. In this story he reveals how he gets the plot for his latest ghost story. The narrator had been told by the editor of the magazine that…
Class 10 English The Dear Departed Summary and Important Questions
SUMMARY OF THE LESSON The play 'The Dear Departed' exposes the pettiness, greed, selfishness and hypocrisy of ungrateful children like Amelia and Elizabeth towards their parents. Mr. Abbel Merryweather is considered to be dead. Mrs. Slater and Henry lose no…
Class 10 English Not Marble Nor The Gilded Monuments Summary and Important Questions
SUMMARY OF THE POEM This great sonnet of William Shakespeare reveals the limitations of wordly glory and grandeur. All the great monuments, memorials and statues erected by princes, rulers and the rich to perpetuate their memory are subject to decay,…
Class 10 English Mirror Summary and Important Questions
ABOUT THE POET Sylvia Path (1932-1963) who also used the pseudonym Victoria Lucas was born in Massachusetts on October 27, 1932. During her early childhood, Sylvia's father Onto suffered from a lengthy illness and died just days past Sylvia's 8th birthday.…
Class 10 English The Frog and The Nightangle Summary and Important Questions
SUMMARY OF THE POEM In ‘The Frog and the Nightangle’, Vikram Seth describes how a wicked frog tired and exhausted an innocent but stupid nightingale of to death. The cunning and crafty frog exploited her magical voice only to collect money at the ticket…
Class 10 English The Letter Summary and Important Questions
Summary Like every day for the past five years, Coachman Ali walked slowly through the town. Now and then he drew his torn clothes tighter to shield his body from the cold and biting wind. At the post office, the old man went in quietly and squatted on the…
Class 10 English Mrs Packletides Tiger Summary and Important Questions
Summary The story 'Mrs Packletide's Tiger', written by Saki (H. H. Munro) makes fun of the Victorian-Edwardian fascination with wild-game hunting, as well as the urge of the people of this time to show off and prove themselves to be better than their so called…
Class 10 English Two Gentlemen of Verona Summary and Important Questions
Summary Two Gentlemen of Verona is a heart-warming story of human relationships and family ties. In the story set in Italy against the backdrop of the Second World War, the two gentlemen of Verona, the brothers, Nicola and jacopo, take care of their…
CBSE Class 9 English Reading Cmprehension Notes
STEPS FOR COMPLETE COMPREHENSION: Skim once as rapidly as possible to determine the main idea before you look at the questions. Don’t worry about words you don’t know at this stage. Underline the words that you do not understand to facilitate a complete understanding of the…