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प्रश्न
Literary Devices
Mark the rhyme scheme of the poem. The rhyme scheme for the first stanza is as follows.
| With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, | a |
| Legs wide, arms locked behind, | b |
| As if to balance the prone brow | a |
| Oppressive with its mind. | b |
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उत्तर
- Alliteration: “Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sound in successive or nearby words.” Note that in alliteration the sound and sense go together. For example, Let once my army-leader Lannes Waver at yonder wall’, In the first line, /l/ is repeated (Let- leaderLannes), and in the second line /w/ is repeated (waver- wall). Find out two more instances of alliteration.
- Synecdoche: “A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice-versa”. For example, You know, we French stormed Ratisbon. Here, the word ‘French’ refers to the country and not the army.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Have you ever visited a fort or a castle?
Did the soldiers fight with the enemies face to face?
Why were the secret galleries bare?
Who was the real enemy?
Our captain was brave and we were true
Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.
Grew thin and treacherous as air.
What is the creeper compared to?
How does the poet spend her winter?
Why is the casuarina tree dear to poet’s heart?
Name the bird that sings in the poet’s garden.
The casuarina tree will be remembered forever. Why?
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
Unto thy honor, Tree, beloved of those
Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose,
Discuss with your partner the different stages in the growth of man from a new born to an adult
Describe the second stage of life as depicted by Shakespeare.
Read the poem once again carefully and identify the figure of speech that has been used in each of the following lines from the poem.
“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
- “All the world's a stage”
- “And all the men and women merely players”
- “And shining morning face, creeping like snail”
- “Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,”
- “Seeking the bubble reputation”
- “His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide”
- “and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble”
Shakespeare has skilfully brought out the parallels between the life of man and actors on stage. Elaborate this statement with reference to the poem.
How would Telemachus transform the subjects?
Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.
.....the deep Moans round with many voices.
Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
- What do ‘thunder’ and ‘sunshine’ refer to?
- What do we infer about the attitude of the sailors?
List the roles and responsibilities Ulysses assigns to his son Telemachus, while he is away.
Every parent is anxious about the welfare of his/her children. Parents express their anxiety by advising them almost all the time. What kind of advice do you frequently receive from your parents? Fill in the bubbles. Tick the ones you like to follow implicitly and give reasons for the ones you don’t like to follow.
What are the poet’s thoughts on ‘being different’?
Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.
“Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.”
- How should one face life?
- Identify the figure of speech in the above line.
Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.
..........Free imaginations
Bringing changes into a world resenting change.
- How does free imagination help the world?
- Identify the figure of speech.
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
and guide him among sudden betrayals
and tighten him for slack moments.
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
He will be lonely enough
to have time for the work
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.
Where was Napoleon standing on the day of attack on the city of Ratisbon?
Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.
‘You’re wounded!’ ‘Nay’, his soldier’s pride Touched to the quick, he said:
- Why did the boy contradict Napoleon’s words?
- Why was his pride touched?
Explain the following line with reference to the context.
‘I’m killed, Sire!’ And, his Chief beside, Smiling, the boy fell dead.
