TNPSC Group 2 General English – The Stick-together Families
Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission Group 2 or Combined Civil Service Examination II has 3 tier examination for the selection process. For Preliminary Examination is an objective type (Written Examination) with a maximum of 300 marks. TNPSC Group 2 Prelims examination – General English/ General Tamil portion topic has 50% of total marks. Candidates who are preparing for the TNPSC Group 2 General English Part are more important and you can score maximum marks in this part.
The General English portion is of 3 Parts – Part A: Grammar, Part B: Poem, and Part C: Literature. Part B Poem topic study materials PDF are readily available and given below for those who preparing for TNPSC Group 2 Exam.
TNPSC Group 2 General English –Poem The Stick-together Families Appreciation and Figure of Speech topic question and answers solutions PDF were given below,
TNPSC Group 2 – Poetry Appreciation Questions:
Read the following lines and answer the following.
1. “The gladdest people living are the wholesome folks who make A circle at the fireside that no power but death can break. ”
a. Who are the gladdest people living?
Ans: The gladdest people are those who live together as wholesome folks.
b. Where do they gather?
Ans: They gather at the fireside.
c.What can break their unity?
Ans: Only death can break their unity.
2. “And the finest of conventions ever held beneath the sun Are the little family gatherings when the busy day is done. ”
a. When do they have their family gatherings?
Ans: They have their family gatherings at the end of the busy day.
b. Where do they have their family conventions?
Ans: The family conventions are held beneath the sun.
c. What does the poet mean by ‘finest conventions’?
Ans: The finest conventions mean a family get-together.
3. “There are rich folk, there are poor folk, who imagine they are wise,
And they’re very quick to shatter all the little family ties. ”
a. What do the rich and poor folk imagine themselves to be?
Ans: The rich and the poor folks imagine themselves to be wise.
b. What do they do to their families?
Ans: They are quick to shatter their little family ties.
c. Whom does ‘they’ refer to?
Ans: They refer to the rich and poor people who do not consider the little family ties as valuable and shatter them.
4. “There are some who seem to fancy that for gladness they must roam,
That for smiles that are the brightest they must wander far from home”
a. Why do they roam?
Ans: They roam to attain gladness.
b. According to them, when do they get bright smiles?
Ans: They get bright smiles when they wander far from home.
5. “But the gladdest sort of people, when the busy day is done,
Are the brothers and the sisters who together share their fun.”
a. Who are the gladdest people?
Ans: The gladdest people are those brothers and sisters who share their fun.
b. When do they share their fun?
Ans: They share their fun when the busy day is done.
c. What does ‘who’ refer to?
Ans: Who refers to the brothers and sisters.
6. “It’s the stick-together family that wins the joys of earth,
That hears the sweetest music and that finds the finest mirth;”
a. Who wins the joys of the earth?
Ans: The stick-together families win the joys of earth.
b. How do they find their joy?
Ans: They find their joys by being together and hearing the sweetest music
c. What does the poet mean by ‘stick-together family’?
Ans: The stick-together family means those families who spend time together (Joint families) and share their fun and sorrows and can be only separated after death.
TNPSC Group 2 – Figures of Speech:
1. “ The stick-together families are happier by far
Then the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are.
The gladdest people living are the wholesome folks who make
A circle at the fireside that no power but death can break.
And the finest of conventions ever held beneath the sun
Are the little family gatherings when the busy day is done. ”
a. Give the rhyme scheme of the above lines.
Ans: ‘aabbcc’ is the rhyme scheme of the above lines.
b. Pick out the rhyming words.
Ans: ‘far and are’, ‘make and break’ and ‘sun and done’ are the rhyming words.
c. What does the poet mean by ‘day is done?
Ans: The poet means that the day has come to an end.
d. What can break the circle at the fireside?
Ans: Death can break a circle at the fireside.
e. What do the stick-together families do when the busy day is done?
Ans: The stick-together families have little family gatherings when the busy day is done.
f. Mention the figure of speech in the last line.
Ans: The figure of speech in the last line is alliteration, (the day is done)
2. “There are rich folk, there are poor folk, who imagine they are wise,
And they’re very quick to shatter all the little family ties.”
a. What does the poet mean by the term, ‘family ties’?
Ans: The poet by the term ‘family ties’ means family bonds.
b. Pick out the rhyming words.
Ans: The rhyming words are wise and ties.
c. Who shatters the family ties?
Ans: The rich and the poor folk who think they are intelligent are quick to shatter the family ties.
3. “Each goes searching after pleasure in his own selected way,
Each with strangers likes to wander, and with strangers likes to play.”
a. Identify the figure of speech in the first line.
Ans: Alliteration is the figure of speech in the first line.
b. Write the alliterated words in the first line.
Ans: The alliterated words are searching and selected in the first line.
4. “There are some who seem to fancy that for gladness they must roam,
That for smiles that are the brightest they must wander far from home.
That the strange friend is the true friend, and they travel far astray
They waste their lives in striving for a joy that’s far away,
But the gladdest sort of people, when the busy day is done,
Are the brothers and the sisters who together share their fun. ”
a. Mention the rhyme scheme?
Ans: ‘aabbcc’ is the rhyme scheme.
b. Give the rhyming words for away and home.
Ans: The rhyming words for away and home are astray and roam respectively.
c. What is meant by ‘astray’?
Ans: Being lost in this world due to bad ways is the meaning of astray.
d. How do they waste their lives?
Ans: They waste their lives in striving for a joy that cannot be easily got.
5. “And, O weary, wandering brother, if contentment you would win,
Come you back unto the fireside and be comrade with your kin.”
a. What are the alliterated words in the first line?
Ans: The alliterated words are weary, wandering.
b. Who is a comrade?
Ans: A comrade is a friend.
c. What should the weary wandering brother do?
Ans: The weary wandering brother should come back to the fireside and be friends with the kith and kin.
d. What do you mean by ‘kin’?
Ans: Kin means relatives.
6. There are rich folk, there are poor folk, who imagine they are wise,…
Pick out the words in alliteration.
Answer: ‘There’ and ‘they’ are the words that alliterate.
7. Mention the rhyme scheme of the poem.
Answer: The rhyme scheme of the poem is ‘aabbcc’ for all the stanzas.
Important links for TNPSC Group 2 General English Study Materials:
- Click Here For TNPSC Group 2 General English Part B Poem – Special Hero
- For Complete Part B Poem Figures of Speech – TNPSC Gr 2 General English Study Materials