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George Elliot was born on 22 November 1819. Her real name was Mary Ann Evans—she preferred to spell her name Marian—and she was the daughter of Robert Evans, the agent for a large estate in the country of Warwickshire. Marian lived among the farmlands and in towns of the Midlands until she was over thirty.
For more than fifty years before her birth, important changes had been taking place in the English countrysides, they were still going on. New methods of farming were improving the use of the land, while the enclosure of open fields and commons altered even the appearance of the country. New machines were invented, and goods which used to be made by individual craftsmen in their in workshops could now be manufactured more quickly and profitably in large factories. Often people from the country moved to towns to work in these factories; the towns themselves grew and spread, creating dreary slums areas. New roads and canals meant that transport and travelling became much easier.
All these changes were part of what is called the Industrial Revolution. It is impossible to fix dates for the exact beginning and end of this 'revolution', though we can think of it roughly as occupying the reigns of George III and George IV—1700-1830. But it did not happen all at once, and in some places changes occurred much more quickly than in others. It might be a long time before remote country villages were affected at all.
Culled from George Elliot's Silas Marner
a. Which narrative technique is used in the passage?
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b. Write out a word in the first paragraph and another phrase in the first sentence in the second paragraph that are used by the writer to assume details or facts because s/he is in doubt or not too sure.
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c. How would you describe the passage? Educative or informative? Quote at least two sentences in the passage to support your answer.
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d. Bullet point the three areas where the changes mentioned in the passage are noticeable.
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e. In your own words, how would you describe 'Revolution'?
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f. Express in your own words the conclusion of the writer.
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h. (i) The word 'dreary' would mean?............................................................................................................
(ii) How many affixes are in the word 'industrial'? ……………………………………………………………………………………
(iii) The root word in 'industrial' is? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Choose a word in the passage that describes the following:
a. people who are skilled at making things with their hands: …………………………………………………………………
b. the representative of someone or a company in a business deal: ……………………………………………………….
c. a congested or crowded dirty residential area: …………………………………………………………………………………..
d. an area of passage with water: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
e. a rural area: ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
f. the process of producing goods in large quantities: ………………………………………………………………………………
g. equipment that reduce human efforts: …………………………………………………………………………………………………
h. an isolated place or area: ……………………………………………………
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