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प्रश्न
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Repetition
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उत्तर
sweat for it fret for and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it.
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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. |
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?
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 each.
Transferred Epithet
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They bring me tokens of myself.
Find out lines from the poem that are examples of following Figures of Speech.
| Figures of Speech | Lines |
| Repetition | ......................... |
| Alliteration | ......................... |
| Hyperbole | ......................... |
Pick out the examples of Alliteration and Repetition from the poem.
Pick out lines that contain the following Figure of Speech.
Antithesis (Opposite ideas)
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Inversion
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Repetition
