Find from the poem, one example of the following. Tautology - English (Second/Third Language)

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Find from the poem, one example of the following.

Tautology

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Tautology - “Rise up - for you the flag is flung – for you the bugle trills;”

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Q 4.(B).(e)Q 4.(B).(d)Q 4.(B).(f)

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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
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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

Although this text speaks of factual events and situations of misery it transforms these situations with an almost poetical prose into a literary experience. How does it do so? Here are some literary devices:

• Hyperbole is a way of speaking or writing that makes something sound better or more exciting than it really is. For example: Garbage to them is gold.

• A Metaphor, as you may know, compares two things or ideas that are not very similar. A metaphor describes a thing in terms of a single quality or feature of some other thing; we can say that a metaphor “transfers” a quality of one thing to another. For example: The road was a ribbon of light.

• Simile is a word or phrase that compares one thing with another using the words “like” or “as”. For example: As white as snow.

Carefully read the following phrases and sentences taken from the text. Can you identify the literary device in each example?

1. Saheb-e-Alam which means the lord of the universe is directly in contrast to what Saheb is in reality.

2. Drowned in an air of desolation.

3. Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically.

4. For the children it is wrapped in wonder; for the elders it is a means of survival.

5. As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine, I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make.

6. She still has bangles on her wrist, but not light in her eyes.

7. Few airplanes fly over Firozabad.

8. Web of poverty.

9. Scrounging for gold.

10. And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art.

11. The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulders.

Find out the examples of ‘Metaphor’ from the poem.

In poetry, when words/ideas are arranged in ascending order of importance, the figure of speech used is called ‘Climax’. For example, Man should work for his family, his country, but most of all for God.

Pick out two examples of ‘Climax’ from the poem.

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.

Alliteration : _______________.

Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.

Repetition: