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You Know that a Metaphor Compares Two Things by Transferring a Feature of One Thing to the Other.Find Metaphors for the Following Words and Complete the Table Below. Also Try to Say How They Are - English - Language and Literature

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प्रश्न

You know that a metaphor compares two things by transferring a feature of one thing to the other.

Find metaphors for the following words and complete the table below. Also try to say how they are alike. The first is done for you.

Storm Tiger Pounces over the fields, growls
Train    
Fire    
School    
Home    
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उत्तर

Storm Tiger Pounces over the fields, growls
Train Snake Long rope like body
Fire Sun Symbol of power
School Temple Teaches moral values, virtues
Home Shelter Safety, warmth
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Figures of Speech
  क्या इस प्रश्न या उत्तर में कोई त्रुटि है?

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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

eg                    in                             of
(a) ________ ____________
(b) ________ ____________
(c) ________ ____________
(d) ________ ____________
(e) ________ ____________
(f) ________ ____________
(g) ________ ____________
(h) ________ ____________

 


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.


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.


Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.

Antithesis : _____________________.


Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever____________


Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.

Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon.


Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.

I stand and look at them long and long.


Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition.


Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.

Bestow this jewel also on my creature-METAPHOR because ______________________.


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


Pick out lines that contain the following Figures of Speech.

Antithesis (Opposite ideas)


Pick out line that contain the following Figures of Speech.

Personification


Pick out line that contain the following Figures of Speech.

Repetition


Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.

The hungry man ate a ____________ of food.


Complete the following examples of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.

He runs faster than a ____________.


Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.

Interrogation


Find from the poem, one example of the following.

Tautology


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