ISC English Literature 2024 Specimen Paper with Answers
All 24 questions of the ISC English Literature 2024 Specimen Paper, in printed order. Open a question to read it in full and see its answer.
- Q1(i) Miranda: Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people… 1 mark · MCQ
- Q1(ii) Why do Juno and Iris describe Ceres as “bounteous” during the masque in The Tempest? 1 mark · MCQ
- Q1(iii) Prospero: Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th’ quick? Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury Do I take part: Which… 1 mark · MCQ
- Q1(iv) How does Ariel’s music influence Stephano and Trinculo in Act III Scene ii of the play, The Tempest? 1 mark · MCQ
- Q1(vi) What is the central idea emphasised in the short story B. Wordsworth? 1 mark · MCQ
- Q1(vii) In the short story The Singing Lesson, what made Miss Meadows change from conducting a mournful song to a happy one? 1 mark · MCQ
- Q1(viii) “With the same pains you use to fill a cup Up to the brim, and even above the brim.” The above lines taken from the poem Birches… 1 mark · MCQ
- Q1(ix) “The sea is calm tonight.” Which one of the following explains why the poem Dover Beach starts with the above line? (I) To help… 1 mark · MCQ
- Q1(x) In the poem The Darkling Thrush, which poetic device has the poet used while describing the wind as the ‘death-lament’? 1 mark · MCQ
- Q2(i) Complete the following sentences by providing a reason for each in brief. Do not write the question. In Act III Scene i of The… 1 mark · Short answer
- Q2(ii) Complete the following sentences by providing a reason for each in brief. Do not write the question. In Act III Scene iii of The… 1 mark · Short answer
- Q2(iii) Complete the following sentences by providing a reason for each in brief. Do not write the question. In Act IV Scene i of The… 1 mark · Short answer
- Q2(iv) Complete the following sentences by providing a reason for each in brief. Do not write the question. In Act V Scene i of The… 1 mark · Short answer
- Q2(vi) Complete the following sentences by providing a reason for each in brief. Do not write the question. In the short story The… 1 mark · Short answer
- Q2(viii) Complete the following sentences by providing a reason for each in brief. Do not write the question. In the poem Birches, the… 1 mark · Short answer
- Q3(i) Provide two details from the play to show the growing love between Miranda and Ferdinand when the former visits the latter. What… 5 marks · Short answer
- Q3(ii) What are Prospero’s reasons for presenting the masque? Why does it end abruptly? Write your answer in a short paragraph of about… 5 marks · Short answer
- Q3(iii)(a) With reference to Act III Scene ii of the play, describe Caliban’s plot to murder Prospero with the help of Trinculo and… 10 marks · Long answer
- Q3(iii)(b) With any two supporting details from Act V, explain what Prospero’s reconciliation with his enemies and renunciation of his magic… 10 marks · Long answer
- Q4(i) Describe any three ways in which B. Wordsworth influenced the narrator’s thinking in the short story, B. Wordsworth. Write your… 5 marks · Short answer
- Q4(ii) What, according to you, is the reason for Mrs. Mallard’s death in The Story of an Hour? In a short paragraph of about 100-150… 5 marks · Short answer
- Q4(iii)(b) With the help of supporting evidence from the short story, The Singing Lesson, explain how Basil’s letter of rejection made Miss… 10 marks · Long answer
- Q5(iii)(a) How does the poet use visual imagery to convey despair and despondency in the poem, The Darkling Thrush? What effect does the… 10 marks · Long answer
- Q5(iii)(b) What is the central idea of the poem Dover Beach? How does the poet resolve the conflict in his mind, towards the end of the… 10 marks · Long answer