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प्रश्न
The poet has also used both repetition and similes in the poem. For example-- 'must wait, must stand and wait' (repetition) and 'looked at me vaguely as cattle do' (simile).Pick out examples of both and make a list of them in your notebooks. Give reasons why the poet uses these literary devices.
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उत्तर
| Repetition | Simile |
| • And must wait, must stand and wait | • as cattle do, as drinking cattle do |
| • to feel so honoured I felt so honoured | • Lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do |
| • And slowly and slowly very slowly | • He had come like a guest in quiet. |
| • I was afraid | • And lifted his head dreamily, as one who has tongue. |
| • I was most afraid | • And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air |
| • from the burning bowels of the earth | • And looked around like a God |
| • Into the burning bowels of the earth | • writhed like lightning • he seemed to me again like a king. |
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One day a wonderful plate full in gold fell from Heaven into a courtyard of a temple at Benaras; so on the plate these words were inscribe. "A gift from Heaven to he who loves better". The priests at once made a announcement that every -day at noon, all which would like to claimed the plate should come |
eg | in | of |
| (a) | ________ | ____________ | |
| (b) | ________ | ____________ | |
| (c) | ________ | ____________ | |
| (d) | ________ | ____________ | |
| (e) | ________ | ____________ | |
| (f) | ________ | ____________ | |
| (g) | ________ | ____________ | |
| (h) | ________ | ____________ |
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. |
The poet uses alliteration to heighten the musical quality of the sonnet. Working in pairs, underline the examples of alliteration in the poem.
Identify Shakespeare's use of personification in the poem.
Like part one, the second part also has a number of literary devices. List them out in the same way as you had done in question number seven and explain them.
The poem is entirely metaphorical. Pick out the comparisons from the poem.
- world - ____________
- actors - ____________
- birth and death - ____________
- school boy - ____________
- the lover's sigh - ____________
- spotted leopard - ____________
- last stage (old age) - ____________
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Metaphor
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They bring me tokens of myself.
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Antithesis
- ________________
- ________________
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Inversion
- ______________
- ______________
Find out examples from the poem.
Alliteration
Pick out lines that contain:
Hyperbole
Pick out line that contain the following Figures of Speech.
Repetition
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
I shall come over in just a ____________
The Figure of Speech ‘Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.
the grief in his heart
- ____________
- ____________
The Figure of Speech ‘ Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.
the sea-shore
- ____________
- ____________
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Alliteration
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Repetition
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Antithesis
