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प्रश्न
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Inversion
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उत्तर
- so both should losers be
- let the world riches, which dispersed lie. Up,
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Identify Shakespeare's use of personification in the poem.
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. |
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 one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Antithesis
Pick out from the poem two examples of the following.
Simile
Pick out from the poem two examples of the following.
Onomatopoeia
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.
Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon.
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Antithesis
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)
With worn-out tools
