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प्रश्न
Complete the following table.
| No. | Figure of Speech | Line of the poem | Explanation |
| 1. | ________________ | ________________ | The sky is imagined to art like a human being. |
| 2. | ________________ | with gleaming gold | ________________ |
| 3. | Oxymoron | ________________ | ________________ |
| 4. | ________________ | The country wears a perfect smile. Anaesthesia, Amnesia, Hypnosis | ________________ |
| 5. | Paradox | ________________ | ________________ |
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उत्तर
| No. | Figure of Speech | Line of the poem | Explanation |
| 1. | Personification | , and the skies surrender. | The sky is imagined to art like a human being. |
| 2. |
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with gleaming gold |
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| 3. | Oxymoron | So history is new again | The old is wiped out or changed to appear new |
| 4. | Climax | The country wears a perfect smile. Anaesthesia, Amnesia, Hypnosis | The words increase in intensity for creating a strong impact. |
| 5. | Paradox | our past's tomorrow | Opposite ideas - past and tomorrow - create a dramatic effect for meaning. |
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A |
B |
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remote |
difficult to overcome |
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means |
most prominent |
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dominant |
be overcome/overpowered |
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formidable |
method(s) |
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overwhelmed |
far away from |
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+ |  |
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| ______ | |
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+ |  |
| ____________ | ||
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