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NCERT · Class 12 · English

Chapter 4: Why the Novel Matters

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Appreciation

2 questions
Q1Written answer

Certain catchphrases are recurrently used as pegs to hang the author’s thoughts throughout the essay. List these and discuss how they serve to achieve the argumentative force of the essay.

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Answer.  Here are a few catchphrases:

  • Body – The author describes the importance of the body and discusses how the body is the ultimate phase of being in learner mode.
  • Spirit – The spirit, according to the author, is a misleading concept which makes a man get into confusion. It leads a man to things that are unreal to the imagination.
  • Man alive – This is the realistic concept of the author in which he says that everything happens because man is alive.
  • Tremulations – Here, tremulations are the talks that the philosophers and saints do because of which man-alive may be influenced to change his course of action.
  • Change – The only constant.
Q2Written answer

The language of the argument is intense and succeeds in convincing the reader through rhetorical devices. Identify the devices used by the author to achieve this force.

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Answer. Given below is the list of rhetorical devices used to intensify the language of argument:

• Allusion – The mention of the Bible.

• Amplification – The repetitive use of words like man alive, spirit, tremulations, etc.

• Metonymy – By saying that ‘The novel is the one bright book of life.’

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