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प्रश्न
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 |
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उत्तर
| Lines | Figures of Speech | Explanation |
| 1. In wondrous merry mood. | Transferred Epithet | The adjective “merry” describes the person’s state of mind, but it is transferred to the word “mood”. |
| 2. They were so queer, so very queer. | Repetition | The words “so queer” are repeated for emphasis. |
| 3. And saw him peep within. | Alliteration | The sound of the letter ‘w’ is repeated in “without” and “within” (implied context from Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem The Height of the Ridiculous). |
| 4. The grin grew broad. | Alliteration/Tautology | The ‘g’ sound is repeated in “grin grew”. (Note: In the context of this specific poem’s textbook exercises, this is often paired with Alliteration or tautology, depending on the specific answer key, but phonetically, it is alliteration.) |
| 5. And shot from ear to ear. | Hyperbole | An exaggeration; a grin cannot literally shoot physically from one ear to the other. |
| 6. He broke into a roar. | Onomatopoeia | The word “roar” imitates the actual sound being made. |
| 7. Ten days and nights with sleepless eye. | Transferred Epithet/Hyperbole | “Sleepless” is transferred from the person to their “eye”. It is also a Hyperbole because staying awake for ten straight days and nights is a massive exaggeration. |
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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?
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. |
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Antithesis
The poem is entirely metaphorical. Pick out the comparison from the poem.
world - .............
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
No one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.
Bestow this jewel also on my creature-METAPHOR because.....
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Personification
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Repetition
