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Assignment Discovering Tut

The document provides notes and assignments for Grade XI English on the chapter 'Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues', highlighting literary devices, vocabulary, and questions for students to answer. It includes examples of personification and simile, along with definitions and usage of key vocabulary words. Additionally, it presents questions for students to explore Tutankhamun's history and the implications of modern scientific examinations of his mummy.

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Assignment Discovering Tut

The document provides notes and assignments for Grade XI English on the chapter 'Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues', highlighting literary devices, vocabulary, and questions for students to answer. It includes examples of personification and simile, along with definitions and usage of key vocabulary words. Additionally, it presents questions for students to explore Tutankhamun's history and the implications of modern scientific examinations of his mummy.

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GRADE - XI, SUBJECT – ENGLISH

NOTES AND ASSIGNMENT

CH. – DISCOVERING TUT: THE SAGA CONTINUES


Literary Devices Used:-
1. ‘An angry wind stirred up ghostly dust devils’
- Personification is used here. The wind is pictured as an angry person stirring up/throwing about
things around him.
2. ‘Dark-bellied clouds had scudded across the desert sky all day and now were veiling the
stars in casket grey.’
- Personification is used here. The dark clouds are pictured as dark-bellied persons (could be
giants) moving across the sky covering the stars in grey.
3. The sun can beat down like a hammer.
- Simile is used here. It shows the intensity of the heat. You get the image of a blacksmith beating
the iron material on his anvil into shape.
4. Just above the entrance to Tut’s tomb stood Orion …watching over the boy king.
- Personification is used here. Orion constellation is presented as a guard watching over Tut.

Vocabulary:-
scud –(of clouds) to move quickly across the sky.
e.g. Dark clouds could be seen scudding across the evening sky.

ransack – to search a place making it untidy and causing damage


e.g. The house had been ransacked by burglars.

antiquity – the ancient past, an object from ancient times.


e.g. The statue was brought to Rome in antiquity./ An Egyptian antiquity

resurrection – returning to life again after death.


resurrect (v)
e.g. Christians believe that Jesus Christ resurrected three days after his death.

circumvent – to find a way to avoid difficulty or a rule


e.g. They found a way to circumvent the law.

eerie – strange, mysterious, and frightening


e.g. I found the silence at the churchyard eerie.

intriguing- unusual and interesting.


e.g. They found his explanation intriguing.

wacky – amusing in a crazy way


e.g. He has such wacky ideas.

GRADE :___/SuBJECT:___ pAGE 1


Answer the following questions in 30-40 words.
1. The boy king changed his name from Tutankhaten to Tutankhamun. What was the reason?
2. What problem did Carter face when he reached the mummy? How did he find a way out?
3. How did Carter defend his action of cutting the mummy free?
4. Which evidence proves the burial of Tut in March or April?
5. What startling fact came to light in 1968 through the X-Ray?
6. How can a CT scan prove more effective than X-rays?
7. Which questions still linger about Tut?
8. How was Tut's body carried to the CT scanner?
9. What snag did the million-dollar scanner develop? How was it set right?
10. Explain the statement, "King Tut is one of the first mummies to be scanned in death, as in life"
Answer the following questions in 100-120 words:
1. AR Williams says, King Tut is "In death, as in life moving regally ahead of his countrymen. How
far do you agree with the assertion and why?
2. "He was the last of his family line." What do you learn about Tut's dynasty from the lesson?
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GRADE :___/SuBJECT:___ pAGE 1

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