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प्रश्न
Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.
And rest in nature, not the God of Nature-REPETITION because.....
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उत्तर
And rest in nature, not the God of Nature-REPETITION because the word ‘nature’ has been repeated for better poetic effect.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines normally-contradictory terms. The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination of two words like- failed success
Writers often use an oxymoron to call attention to an apparent contradiction. For example, Wilfred Owen's poem The Send-off refers to soldiers leaving for the front line, who "lined the train with faces grimly gay." The oxymoron 'grimly gay' highlights the
contradiction between how the soldiers feel and how they act: though they put on a brave face and act cheerful, they feel grim. Some examples of oxymorons are- dark sunshine, cold sun, living dead, dark light, almost exactly etc. The story Mrs. Packletide's Tiger has a number of oxymorons. Can you identify them and write them down in your notebooks?
There are a number of literary devices used in the poem. Some of them have been listed below. Choose the right ones and write them down in the table as shown in the example. In each of the cases, explain what they mean.
| simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification. hyperbole, repetition, |
| 1. The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: | Simile; the wedding guest was completely under the control of the mariner |
| 2. Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top | |
| 3. The sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he | |
| 4. The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she | |
| 5. And now the storm-blast came, and he was tyrannous and strong: | |
| 6. With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe | |
| 7. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around |
Choose the correct Figure of Speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
______ but still we keep a bower quiet for us ______.
Find out examples from the poem.
Alliteration
Find out examples from the poem.
Antithesis
Pick out lines that contain:
Hyperbole
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Inversion
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Interrogation
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Exclamation
Pick out one or two other examples of allusion from the story and comment briefly on the comparison made.
