ICSE Class 10 English Literature Answer Key 2025: The ICSE Class 10 English Literature exam was conducted on February 21, 2025. English paper 2 was of total 80 marks with 20 marks for internal assessment. There were a total of 4 sections in English Literature of ICSE Board Exam 2025: Section A, B, C, and D. Section A was compulsory while students had to choose 1 question each from sections B, C, and D.

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ICSE Class 10 English Literature Exam 2025 Difficulty Level: Student Reaction

We have updated here the students' reaction to the ICSE Class 10 English Literature exam:

• The overall difficulty level of the exam was easy to moderate.
• The MCQs in section A were easy and direct.
• The Grammar section questions were also easy and not time-consuming.
• Section B was a bit lengthy and time-consuming for some students.
• Sections C and D were of moderate difficulty level. The unseen passage was a bit time consuming.

ICSE Class 10 English Literature Exam Analysis 2025

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ICSE Class 10 English Literature Answer Key 2025 PDF

We have updated the unofficial answer key for the ICSE Class 10 English Literature exam below. The candidates can download the ICSE Class 10 English Literature answer key in PDF form by clicking on the link below:

Q. 1 (i) What does Antony describe as, ‘thou bleeding piece of earth,’?

Ans: Option d (Ceaser’s lifeless body covered in blood)

(ii) When Brutus says, ‘ambition’s debt is paid’, he means that __________.

Ans: Option a (Ceaser’s greed for power and possession had resulted in his death)

(iii) After Antony’s speech following Ceaser’s assassination, the angry mob kills ________.

Ans: Option b (Cinna the poet)

(iv) When Antony says, ‘He must be taught, and train’d, and bid go forth A barren-spirited fellow,’ he refers to _________.

Ans: Option d (Lepidus)

(v) Who were the members of the Second Triumvirate, formed to rule over Rome after Ceaser’s assassination?

Ans: Option c (Mark Antony, Octavius Ceader, Lepidus)

(vi) Which of the following words best describes Cassius’s mood when he says:

‘Come, Antony and young Octavius, come,

Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius,’

Ans: Option d (Frustrated)

(vii) In the poem, ‘Haunted Houses’, what does the speaker see at his fireside that the stranger cannot?

Ans: Option c (the speaker sees both the present and the past)

(viii) In the poem, ‘The Glove and the Lions’, who does Count de Lorge ‘sigh for’?

Ans: Option d (The beauteous lively dame)

(ix)

Ans: Option a [(1) is false, but (2) is true]

(x) The poem, A Considerable Speck, expresses Frost’s ___________.

Ans: Option b (respect for intelligent life)

(xi) Which of the given options contains the figure of speech that appears in the following line from the poem, ‘The Power of Music’?

And in the sky the feathered fly turn turtle while

They’re winging,

Ans: Option a (You’re one month on in the middle of May)

(xii) In the short story, ‘With the photographer’, the narrator asks the photographer, “Is it me?” because _________.

Ans: Option c (He is unable to recognise his own face)

(xiii) In the short story, ‘The Elevator’, wich of the following does Martin’s father NOT do when Martin expresses his fear of elevator? 

Ans: Option b (He encourages Martin to use the stairs)

(xiv)

Ans: Option c (3, 1, 4, 2)

(xv) Where was Adjoa born?

Ans: Option b (Ghana)

(xvi) Why did M Hamel have to leave the school after forty years of service?

Ans: Option a (He was not allowed to teach French any longer)

ICSE Class 10 English Literature Question Paper 2025 PDF

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