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In poetry, when words/ideas are arranged in ascending order of importance, the figure of speech used is called ‘Climax’. For example, Man should work for his family - English

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In poetry, when words/ideas are arranged in 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.
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उत्तर

  1. to go out and fight for it, work day and night for it give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it
  2. sweat for it, fret for and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it.
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पाठ 3.4: The Will to Win - English Workshop [पृष्ठ १२७]

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बालभारती English Kumarbharati [English] Standard 10 Maharashtra State Board
पाठ 3.4 The Will to Win
English Workshop | Q 8. (a) | पृष्ठ १२७

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

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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) ________ ____________

 


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.  

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


Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.

Alliteration : _______________.


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.

Alliteration


Pick out lines that contain:

Alliteration


Pick out lines that contain the following Figures of Speech.

Antithesis (Opposite ideas)


The Figure of Speech ‘Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.

the grief in his heart

  1. ____________
  2. ____________

Pick out one or two other examples of allusion from the story and comment briefly on the comparison made.


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