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Question
Find outlines from the poem that are examples of the following Figures of Speech.
| Figures of Speech | Lines |
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___________________________ |
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Solution
| Figures of Speech | Lines | |
| (i) |
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I stand and look at them long and long. |
| (ii) |
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They bring me tokens of myself. |
| (iii) |
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No one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. |
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Simile
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Personification
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