GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) English (XH-C2): Questions 1212 - 1215 of 2433

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Passage

Read the poem and answer the questions that follow:

The Voice

Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,

Saying that now you are not as what you were

When you had changed from the one who was all to me

But as first, when our day was fair

Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you, then

Standing as when I drew near to the town

Where you would wait for me: yes, as I knew you then,

Even to the original air-blue gown!

Or is it only the breeze, in its listlessness

Travelling across the wet mead to me here,

You being ever dissolved to wan wistlessness

Heard no more again far or near?

Thus I; faltering forward,

Leaves around me falling,

Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward

And the woman calling. (June Paper 3)

Question 1212 (1 of 5 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

What suggestion does the opening stanza give of a woman won or a woman lost?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

The contrast between ‘now’ and ‘then’

b.

The phrase “had changed”

c.

The phrase “our day was fair”

d.

The continuity between ‘now’ and ‘then’

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Question 1213 (2 of 5 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

What is tantalizing about the speaker՚s experience in stanza 2?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

The indistinct voice heard by the speaker and the absence of woman

b.

The uncertainty of the voice and the speaker՚s inability to see the woman

c.

The woman disappearing before her voice is fully heard

d.

The disappearance of the lady and the echo of the voice

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Question 1214 (3 of 5 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

What phrase in the poem suggests the possibility of the woman as “dead” ?

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

“You being ever dissolved”

b.

“Woman much missed”

c.

“You had changed … . to me”

d.

“I knew you then”

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Question 1215 (4 of 5 Based on Passage)

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

Identify the special sound effect in the line given: Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward. (June Paper 3)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

The use of sibilants

b.

Assonance

c.

Onomatopoeia

d.

Alliteration

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