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Question
Match the lines with the Figures of Speech.
| Lines | Figures of Speech |
| 1. In wondrous merry mood. | Tautology |
| 2. They were so queer, so very queer. | Alliteration |
| 3. And saw him peep within. | Onomatopoeia |
| 4. The grin grew broad. | Repetition |
| 5. And shot from ear to ear. | Hyperbole |
| 6. He broke into a roar. | Repetition |
| 7. Ten days and nights with sleepless eye. | Transferred Epithet |
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Solution
| Lines | Figures of Speech | Explanation |
| 1. In wondrous merry mood. | Transferred Epithet | The adjective “merry” describes the person’s state of mind, but it is transferred to the word “mood”. |
| 2. They were so queer, so very queer. | Repetition | The words “so queer” are repeated for emphasis. |
| 3. And saw him peep within. | Alliteration | The sound of the letter ‘w’ is repeated in “without” and “within” (implied context from Oliver Wendell Holmes’ poem The Height of the Ridiculous). |
| 4. The grin grew broad. | Alliteration/Tautology | The ‘g’ sound is repeated in “grin grew”. (Note: In the context of this specific poem’s textbook exercises, this is often paired with Alliteration or tautology, depending on the specific answer key, but phonetically, it is alliteration.) |
| 5. And shot from ear to ear. | Hyperbole | An exaggeration; a grin cannot literally shoot physically from one ear to the other. |
| 6. He broke into a roar. | Onomatopoeia | The word “roar” imitates the actual sound being made. |
| 7. Ten days and nights with sleepless eye. | Transferred Epithet/Hyperbole | “Sleepless” is transferred from the person to their “eye”. It is also a Hyperbole because staying awake for ten straight days and nights is a massive exaggeration. |
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