Holiday Homework for English STD X

An effort to keep the students engaged in productive activities during the vacation and
to enhance their reading and analysing skills.

To be written in notebook

1. Prepare a tense chart with suitable Examples

2. Write the definition of the following poetic Devices with Examples
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Imagery
• Alliteration
• Enjambment
• Repetition
• Anaphora
• Synecdoche
• Hyperbole
• Oxymoron
• Onomatopoeia
• Antithesis
• Irony
• Symbolism
• Rhyme scheme
• Assonance
• Consonance

PROJECT TO BE DONE IN SHOELACE FILE

Make an English Project based on the following two theme from the stories of your text.

1. Human Nature and Faith

• Letter to God
• Dust of snow
2. Use and misuse of Science
• Footprint without Feet
• The Making of Scientists

The project should contain the following pages:

1. Cover page
2. Content
3. Acknowledgement
 4. Introduction
5. Theme 1: Description with reference
6. Theme 2: Description with reference
7. Conclusion
8. Reference

ALL THE HOLIDAY HOMEWORK MUST BE COMPLETED DURING THE VACATION AND
SUBMITTED ON THE DAY OF REOPENING.