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प्रश्न
Find out the examples of ‘Metaphor’ from the poem.
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उत्तर
- "By narrow domestic walls" - An indirect comparison has been made between 'narrow domestic walls' and the 'narrow-minded divisions in the society'.
- "Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way." - An indirect comparison has been made between the 'clarity of a stream' and 'reason'.
- "Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit" - An indirect comparison has been made between 'habit' and 'desert sand' .
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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. |
Identify Shakespeare's use of personification in the poem.
Pick out from the poem two examples of the following.
Onomatopoeia
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
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 example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
(horse / lion / death / an ocean / ton / second / help)
He runs faster than a ______.
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Apostrophe
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Tautology
