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प्रश्न
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ______
विकल्प
Epigram
Antithesis
Climax
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उत्तर
Epigram: the sentence is a short, pithy statement.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
In pairs, find metaphors from the story to complete the table below. Try to say what qualities are being compared. One has been done for you.
| Object | Metaphor | Quality or Feature Compared |
| Cloud | Huge mountains of clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains |
| Raindrops | ||
| Hailstones | ||
| Locusts | ||
| An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead | ||
| An ox of a man. |
Find an example from the poem that contain:
Similie
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Metaphor
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
I stand and look at them long and long.
‘Pun’ can be defined as a play on words based on their different meanings. Example: ‘Writing with a broken pencil is pointless.’ In this poem, there is an example of Pun. Find and make a sentence of your own. Share a joke with the class where the use of ‘Pun’ creates humour.
‘I hear the bright bee hum.’ The poet has used the word ‘hum’ that indicates the sound made by the bee. This is an example of Onomatopoeia. The poet has used different figures of speech like alliteration, inversion, and hyperbole in the poem. Identify them and pick out the lines accordingly.
Alliteration
Pick out lines that contain:
Alliteration
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/ Repetition/ Antithesis/ Personification/ Metaphor/ Alliteration/ Apostrophe)
With worn-out tools ____________.
Complete the following examples of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
He runs faster than a ____________.
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Repetition
