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प्रश्न
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
I stand and look at them long and long.
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उत्तर
Repetition
Explanation:
In this line (which is a famous quote from Walt Whitman’s poem “Animals”), the word “long” is repeated twice (“long and long”).
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संबंधित प्रश्न
In poetry, when words/ideas are arranged in an ascending order of importance, the figure of speech used is called ‘Climax’.
For example, Man should work for his family, his country, but most of all for God.
- Pick out two examples of ‘Climax’ from the poem.
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 from the poem two examples of the following.
Onomatopoeia
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall ______.
Pick out lines that contain:
Hyperbole
Pick out line that contain the following Figure of Speech.
Repetition
Pick out line that contain the following Figure of Speech.
Metaphor
Match the lines of the poem with their Figures of speech.
| Group A | Group B | |
| (1) Whose woods these are I think I know | (a) | Alliteration |
| (2) The woods are lovely, dark and deep | (b) | Personification |
| (3) And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep. | (c) | Inversion |
| (4) My little horse must think it queer | (d) | Repetition |
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Interrogation
Pick out one or two other examples of allusion from the story and comment briefly on the comparison made.
