CHSE +2 2nd Year Alternative English

Explanations and answers for the 2nd Year Syllabus of the Odisha CHSE Board Alternative English. Find all the answers for the books ‘Approaches to English – I’ and ‘Approaches to English – II’.

Toads – CHSE Odisha +2 2nd Year Alternative English – Explanation and Answers

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Toads by Phillip Lankin Stanza 1.. A ‘toad’ is a small amphibian species with an ugly look. It hibernates for long months, and is known to be not particularly agile. In this poem, ‘toads’ has been used in a metaphoric sense. Explanation .. The author … Read more

Of A Questionable Conviction – CHSE Odisha +2 2nd Year Alternative English – Answers

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Of A Questionable Conviction by Jayanta Mohapatra Stanza One: This is a man who talks of painas though it belonged to him aloneMaybe he has invented it himselfand made a virtue of it.May be he is a poet. Meaning … Poets and writers almost universally … Read more

Mirror – CHSE Odisha +2 2nd Year Alternative English – Explanation and Answers

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Mirror by Sylvia Plath I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful ‚ The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the … Read more

The Happy Man – CHSE Odisha +2 2nd Year Alternative English – Explanation and Answers

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The Happy Man by William Somerset Maugham About the author …… W. Somerset Maugham(1874-19) was possibly the most prolific and the  most adored novelist of his times. ‘A Happy Man’, although written as a fiction, mirrors his uncharacteristic life that saw effusive public adulation, and … Read more

Indian Children Speak – CHSE Odisha +2 2nd Year Alternative English – Explanation

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Indian Children Speak by Juanita Bell Questions for Discussion … Q1. They are children of Red Indian descent. Q2. Throughout the poem.. ‘people said’ broadly denotes the opinion of the white Americans, who look down upon the Red Indians. The whites are from Europe, who … Read more