Question: Name two famous works of Persian literature and their authors from Medieval India. Answer: The historian Barani, wrote the Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi and Abdul Fazl wrote the biography of Akbar Akbarnama and Ain-i-Akbari. Question: What was the language and dialect of the book Padmavat? What was its theme? Answer: Malik …

Question: Who was Chanakya? Answer: Chanakya (or Kauṭilya) was a wise man who served Chandragupta Maurya. Question: Who lived in the Mauryan cities? Answer: Merchants, officials and crafts persons lived in Mauryan cities. Question: Giue one point of difference between empires and kingdoms. Answer: Empires need more resources than kingdoms …

Question: Distinguish between bio-degradable and non bio-degradable. Answer: Biodegradable waste: Waste that will decay and mix with soil. Microorganisms can convert this waste into simpler from. Peels, meat, leaves are the example. Non biodegradable wast: Waste that will not decay and mix soil. Microorganisms cannot convert this waste into simpler …

Question: What do you understand by the term gender? Answer: The way each society perceives what a ‘man’ is and what a ‘woman’ is, and what their different roles and responsibilities are, is called gender. It is more than the biological difference between men and women. Question: What is a stereotyping? Give …

This is not just another figure of speech. The power, force, intensity and vehemence this device infuses into any writer’s, or speaker’s, work can be commendable. The rapid effect while keeping the audience hooked on to the edge is what an asyndeton statement does. Evolved from the Greek word asyndetos; …

What happens when you miss out a part of your sentence either while reading or writing? It becomes meaningless and incomplete. This phenomenon, often considered sacrosanct, doesn’t really apply to a sentence with an appositive. Appositive is an excellent tool that can be defined as a noun or phrase of …

You might have come across lines like “Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief.” It is written in such a way that the person is talking to death which is, obviously, not a person, but a phenomenon. This is an example of apostrophe, which is an important …

Surely, you’ve come across literary works or movies where an idea is being described and suddenly it transforms into something less significant. By definition, anticlimax terms/phrases are figures of speech in which statements or ideas descend according to their importance. To put it in simpler words, a serial arrangement of …

Alliteration is a literary device that emphasizes on repetition of a particular consonant in the first syllables in a series of words. It is important to know that in alliteration, the sound of the words matter the most. It is extensively used in literature, particularly in poetry. Alliteration is like …

Just like we add spice to our meals to make them taste better, adjuncts are used in sentences to amp up their meaning and make them more luculent. Adjunctions are fun to play with and can be a single word, a phrase or a clause. Adjuncts have adverbial functions and …