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Question
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever ______
Options
Epigram
Antithesis
Climax
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Solution
Epigram: the sentence is a short, pithy statement.
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| 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. |
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Simile
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Alliteration
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Antithesis
Pick out lines that contain:
Alliteration
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket
(Simile/ Repetition/ Antithesis/ Personification/ Metaphor/ Alliteration/ Apostrophe)
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”
Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.
Onomatopoeia
Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.
Apostrophe
Pick out one or two other examples of allusion from the story and comment briefly on the comparison made.
