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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
You know that a metaphor compares two things by transferring a feature of one thing to the other.
Find metaphors for the following words and complete the table below. Also try to say how they are alike. The first is done for you.
| Storm | Tiger | Pounces over the fields, growls |
| Train | ||
| Fire | ||
| School | ||
| Home |
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?
In poetry, when words/ideas are arranged in an ascending order of importance, the figure of speech used is called ‘Climax’.
For example, Man should work for his family, his country, but most of all for God.
- Pick out two examples of ‘Climax’ from the poem.
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Alliteration
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Alliteration
Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.
Rest in the bottom lay-PUN because.....
Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.
Bestow this jewel also on my creature-METAPHOR because.....
Find out examples from the poem.
Antithesis
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)
With worn-out tools
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Antithesis
