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प्रश्न
Like part one, the second part also has a number of literary devices. List them out in the same way as you had done in question number seven and explain them.
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उत्तर
| Excerpt | Literary device |
| 1. out of the sea come he, | Personification: The sun has been compared to a human being capable of movement. |
| 2. And it would work’em woe. | Alliteration: The letter’ w’ has been repeated thrice. |
| 3. Nor dim nor red, like God’s own head, | Simile: Sun has been compared to God’s glorious head. |
| 4. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew The furrow followed free | Alliteration: The letter ‘f has been repeated and blew and flew has repetition of ew sound. |
| 5. And we did speak only to break the silence of the sea! | Hyperbole: The speakers have exaggerated their action of speaking. |
| 6. All in a hot and copper sky the bloody sun at noon | Metaphor: Sky and the sun have been indirectly compared to copper and blood respectively. |
| 7. As idle as a painted ship | Simile: The ship has been compared to a painting. |
| 8. Day after day, day after Say | Repetition: The words have been repeated. |
| 9. Water, water every where not any drop to drink. | Irony: Though there is lot of water but the sailors could not drink even a single drop. |
| 10. The death-fires danced at night. | Personification: Fire has been shown as doing a dance of death. |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The poet uses alliteration to heighten the musical quality of the sonnet. Working in pairs, underline the examples of alliteration in the poem.
Find examples of the use of interesting sounds (Onomatopoeia) from the poem and explain their effect on the reader.
| 1. The ice 'cracked and growled, and roared and howled' |
Coleridge uses onomatopoeic words which use harsh 'ck' sounds to make the ice sound brutal. He also gives the ice animal sounds to give the impression it has come alive and is attacking the ship |
When some words, in the line of the poem, express the same idea in different ways, the figure of speech used is ‘Tautology’.
For example:
...happy and joyful.
...motionless and still.
- Pick out two examples of ‘Tautology’ from the poem.
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Repetition
Pick out from the poem two examples of the following.
Onomatopoeia
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Metaphor
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Transferred Epithet
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever____________
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
..... not one is demented with the mania of owning things.
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They bring me tokens of myself.
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Inversion
Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.
And rest in nature, not the God of Nature-REPETITION because.....
Find out examples from the poem.
Antithesis
Alliteration is the occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of words in a phrase, sentence, etc. such as ‘That life is lived it's very best.’
Find out more examples of Alliteration from other poems in your book.
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket
(Simile/ Repetition/ Antithesis/ Personification/ Metaphor/ Alliteration/ Apostrophe)
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
She wept____________of tears.
The Figure of Speech ‘Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.
the grief in his heart
- ____________
- ____________
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Tautology
