‘I hear the bright bee hum.’ The poet has used the word ‘hum’ that indicates the sound made by the bee. This is an example of Onomatopoeia. The poet has used different figures of speech

प्रश्न

‘I hear the bright bee hum.’ The poet has used the word ‘hum’ that indicates the sound made by the bee. This is an example of Onomatopoeia. The poet has used different figures of speech like alliteration, inversion, and hyperbole in the poem. Identify them and pick out the lines accordingly.

Alliteration

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उत्तर

"In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:"

Explanation:

Alliteration - The sound of the letter 'b' has been repeated for a poetic effect.

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Figures of Speech

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Q (A4) (b)Q (A4) (a)Q (A4) (c)

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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?

The poet uses alliteration to heighten the musical quality of the sonnet. Working in pairs, underline the examples of alliteration in the poem.

Complete the table listing the poetic devices used by Shelley in Ozymandias.

Poetic Device	Lines from the poem
Alliteration	...and sneer of cold command
Synecdoche (substitution of a part to stand for the whole, or the whole to stand for a part)	the hand that mock'd them

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

Like part one, the second part also has a number of literary devices. List them out in the same way as you had done in question number seven and explain them.

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.

Find out the examples of ‘Metaphor’ from the poem.

Match the Figures of Speech with the correct definition.

Poetic Devices
Figure	Definition
(1) Metaphor	(a) The use of the same sound at the beginning of words.
(2) Alliteration	(b) An implied comparison.
(3) Onomatopoeia	(c) A comparison between two different things, especially a phrase, containing the words ‘like’ or ‘as’.
(4) Simile	(d) A word that resembles the sound it represents.

When some words, in the line of the poem, express the same idea in different ways, the figure of speech used is ‘Tautology’.

For example:

...happy and joyful.
...motionless and still.

Pick out two examples of ‘Tautology’ from the poem.

Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.

Antithesis

Pick out from the poem two examples of each.

Alliteration

Pick out from the poem two examples of each.

Metaphor

Pick out from the poem two examples of each.

Inversion

Pick out from the poem two examples of each.

Transferred Epithet

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

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ______