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प्रश्न
The poet opens his poem with a question. Is the question asked to receive some answer? No. It is a question used to emphasize and stress upon the fact that modern man has no time to enrich his life from nature.
Such a device used by poets falls under the Figure of Speech called 'Interrogation' or 'Rhetorial Question'. Refer to the poem 'The Pilgrim' and find examples of Interrogation.
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उत्तर
- Why waste your time in building here?
- Why build ye here at even tide?
- ‘What is this life, if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?
संबंधित प्रश्न
Explain the figure of speech Interrogation/Rhetorical with example.
Note the punctuation used in the story. Here, single inverted commas or quotation marks have been used to show conversation. Rewrite the following using double quotation marks:
‘It will take me half the day to mend this.’
Give other ‘-ly’ adverbs of similar meaning for the following. Use a thesaurus if needed.
| rapidly | ______ |
| merrily | ______ |
| gratefully | ______ |
| cheerily | ______ |
| manfully | ______ |
| fearlessly | ______ |
| gloriously | ______ |
| victoriously | ______ |
Rewrite the following sentence replacing ‘as soon as’ by ‘No sooner than’ (Note: The phrase, ‘No sooner’ must always be followed by an auxiliary (helping verb).)
As soon as you have finished, you can submit your answer-papers.
My father doesn’t drink ________ coffee.
Give the correct verb form for following sentence.

We______police.
Complete the following sentence with modal using the clue given.
He ______ come today. (remote possibility)
Find out the antonym of the underlined word in each of the following sentence.
There he was sitting in splendour on his chair.
Replace the underlined word/expression with possibly polite form.
The culprit was sent to jail.
Write compound word using the pictures.
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