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प्रश्न
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall ______.
विकल्प
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperbole
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उत्तर
Alliteration: Repetition of the sound of the letter ‘s’
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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. |
Pick out from the poem two examples of the following.
Simile
‘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
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
(horse / lion / death / an ocean / ton / second / help)
The hungry man ate a ______ of food.
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
(horse / lion / death / an ocean / ton / second / help)
He runs faster than a ______.
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
(horse / lion / death / an ocean / ton / second / help)
I shall come over in just a ______.
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Interrogation
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Onomatopoeia
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Personification
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Repetition
