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प्रश्न
‘Pun’ can be defined as a play on words based on their different meanings. Example: ‘Writing with a broken pencil is pointless.’ In this poem, there is an example of Pun. Find and make a sentence of your own. Share a joke with the class where the use of ‘Pun’ creates humour.
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- Example of a Pun
The Pun: “An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”
The Play on Words: The word “lie” has two meanings here: to physically reside in another country and to tell an untruth for diplomatic purposes. - My Own Sentence Using a Pun
“I told my doctor that I broke my arm in two places. He told me to stop going to those places.”
The Play on Words: The word “places” switches between locations on the human body and physical geographic locations. - A Joke for the Class
The Joke
Teacher: “Class, why are you turning in a blank sheet of paper for your history essay?”
Student: “Because I chose to write about a secret agent, and his identity is classified!”
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One day a wonderful plate full in gold fell from Heaven into a courtyard of a temple at Benaras; so on the plate these words were inscribe. "A gift from Heaven to he who loves better". The priests at once made a announcement that every -day at noon, all which would like to claimed the plate should come |
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Although this text speaks of factual events and situations of misery it transforms these situations with an almost poetical prose into a literary experience. How does it do so? Here are some literary devices:
• Hyperbole is a way of speaking or writing that makes something sound better or more exciting than it really is. For example: Garbage to them is gold.
• A Metaphor, as you may know, compares two things or ideas that are not very similar. A metaphor describes a thing in terms of a single quality or feature of some other thing; we can say that a metaphor “transfers” a quality of one thing to another. For example: The road was a ribbon of light.
• Simile is a word or phrase that compares one thing with another using the words “like” or “as”. For example: As white as snow.
Carefully read the following phrases and sentences taken from the text. Can you identify the literary device in each example?
1. Saheb-e-Alam which means the lord of the universe is directly in contrast to what Saheb is in reality.
2. Drowned in an air of desolation.
3. Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically.
4. For the children it is wrapped in wonder; for the elders it is a means of survival.
5. As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine, I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make.
6. She still has bangles on her wrist, but not light in her eyes.
7. Few airplanes fly over Firozabad.
8. Web of poverty.
9. Scrounging for gold.
10. And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art.
11. The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulders.
Find out the examples of ‘Metaphor’ from the poem.
Find an example from the poem that contain:
Similie
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Alliteration
Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.
Rest in the bottom lay-PUN because.....
Find out examples from the poem.
Antithesis
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
(horse / lion / death / an ocean / ton / second / help)
She wept ______ of tears.
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Personification
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Tautology
