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प्रश्न
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Antithesis
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उत्तर
- when god at first made man.
- let the world’s riches. Which dispersed lie, Contract into a span.
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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. |
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Alliteration
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 the examples of Alliteration and Repetition from the poem.
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)
“And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise”
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
(horse / lion / death / an ocean / ton / second / help)
The hungry man ate a ______ of food.
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
(horse / lion / death / an ocean / ton / second / help)
Brrrr..! I am freezing to ______.
The Figure of Speech ‘Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.
the dead Captain
- .....................
- .....................
The Figure of Speech ‘Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.
the grief in his heart
- ......................
- ......................
Pick out one or two other examples of allusion from the story and comment briefly on the comparison made.
