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प्रश्न
Find out lines from the poem that are examples of following Figures of Speech.
| Figures of Speech | Lines |
| Repetition | ......................... |
| Alliteration | ......................... |
| Hyperbole | ......................... |
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उत्तर
| Figures of Speech | Lines |
| Repetition | I stand and look at them long and long. |
| Alliteration | They bring me tokens of myself. |
| Hyperbole | No one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. |
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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. |
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Alliteration
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Repetition
The poem is entirely metaphorical. Pick out the comparison from the poem.
world - .............
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ______
Match the lines with the Figures of Speech.
| Lines | Figures of Speech |
| 1. In wondrous merry mood. | Tautology |
| 2. They were so queer, so very queer. | Alliteration |
| 3. And saw him peep within. | Onomatopoeia |
| 4. The grin grew broad. | Repetition |
| 5. And shot from ear to ear. | Hyperbole |
| 6. He broke into a roar. | Repetition |
| 7. Ten days and nights with sleepless eye. | Transferred Epithet |
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Inversion
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs”
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Inversion
The Figure of Speech ‘ Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.
the sea-shore
- ......................
- ......................
