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प्रश्न
Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below.
“The water-lilies spring, like snow enmassed.”
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उत्तर
Simile
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Who is the narrator in the poem?
Where were the enemies?
What was the ‘shameful act’?
Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.
| Oh then our maze of tunneled stone Grew thin and treacherous as air. The castle was lost without a groan, The famous citadel overthrown, |
- Bring out the contrast in the first two lines.
- What is the rhyme scheme of the given stanza?
They seemed no threat to us at all.
I will maintain until my death
Our only enemy was gold
Underline the alliterated word in the following line.
The wizened warder let them through.
Why is the casuarina tree dear to poet’s heart?
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
It is the tree’s lament, an eerie speech,…
Bring out the features of the fourth stage of a man as described by the poet.
Pick out the lines which convey that his quest for travel is unending.
How would Telemachus transform the subjects?
Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.
And drunk delight of battle with my peers;
Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades
For ever and for ever when I move
- What is experience compared to?
- How do the lines convey that the experience is endless?
Explain with reference to the context the following line.
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Explain with reference to the context the following line.
....you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
The poet says
‘Without rich wanting nothing arrives’ but he condemns ‘the quest of lucre beyond a few easy needs.’ Analyse the difference and write.
Here are a few poetic device used in the poem.
Transferred Epithet- It is a figure of speech in which an epithet grammatically qualifies a noun other than the person or a thing, it is actually meant to describe.
Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.
Tell him to be a fool ever so often
and to have no shame over having been a fool
yet learning something out of every folly
hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies
- Is it a shame to be a fool at times?
- What does one learn from every folly?
Who do you think is the narrator of the poem?
Where was the narrator when the incident happened?
Describe the posture of Napoleon.
Why did the rider keep his lips compressed?
Why did Napoleon’s eyes become soft as a mother eagle’s eyes?
Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.
Legs wide, arms locked behind As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive with its mind.
- Whose action is described here?
- What is meant by prone brow?
- What is his state of mind?
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
‘I’m killed, Sire!’ And, his Chief beside, Smiling, the boy fell dead.
Napoleon was a great source of inspiration to his army. Justify.
