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प्रश्न
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Alliteration
- ________________
- ________________
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उत्तर
1) But keep them with repaining restlessness
2) when god at first made man.
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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. |
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 |
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.
Alliteration
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____________
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Inversion
- ______________
- ______________
Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.
Bestow this jewel also on my creature-METAPHOR because ______________________.
Pick out lines that contain:
Alliteration
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Tautology
