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प्रश्न
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Onomatopoeia
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उत्तर
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Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
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And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
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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. |
The poet has also used both repetition and similes in the poem. For example-- 'must wait, must stand and wait' (repetition) and 'looked at me vaguely as cattle do' (simile).Pick out examples of both and make a list of them in your notebooks. Give reasons why the poet uses these literary devices.
In poetry, when words/ideas are arranged in 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.
Metaphor
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They bring me tokens of myself.
Find out examples from the poem.
Alliteration
Find out examples from the poem.
Antithesis
Pick out line that contain the following Figures of Speech.
Personification
Pick out line that contain the following Figures of Speech.
Repetition
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Exclamation
