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प्रश्न
Find an example from the poem that contain:
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उत्तर
The peasants came like swarms of flies. The peasants are compared directly to swarms of flies, with the use of the word ‘like’.
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One day a wonderful plate full in gold fell from Heaven into a courtyard of a temple at Benaras; so on the plate these words were inscribe. "A gift from Heaven to he who loves better". The priests at once made a announcement that every -day at noon, all which would like to claimed the plate should come |
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An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines normally-contradictory terms. The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination of two words like- failed success
Writers often use an oxymoron to call attention to an apparent contradiction. For example, Wilfred Owen's poem The Send-off refers to soldiers leaving for the front line, who "lined the train with faces grimly gay." The oxymoron 'grimly gay' highlights the
contradiction between how the soldiers feel and how they act: though they put on a brave face and act cheerful, they feel grim. Some examples of oxymorons are- dark sunshine, cold sun, living dead, dark light, almost exactly etc. The story Mrs. Packletide's Tiger has a number of oxymorons. Can you identify them and write them down in your notebooks?
Pick out from the poem two examples of the following.
Onomatopoeia
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Transferred Epithet
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs”
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)
I shall come over in just a ______.
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Inversion
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Interrogation
The Figure of Speech ‘ Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.
the sea-shore
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