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Question
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Inversion
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Solution
- so both should losers be
- let the world riches, which dispersed lie. Up,
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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 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.
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Alliteration
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Transferred Epithet
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
Pick out line that contain the following Figure of Speech.
Metaphor
Match the lines of the poem with their Figures of speech.
| Group A | Group B | |
| (1) Whose woods these are I think I know | (a) | Alliteration |
| (2) The woods are lovely, dark and deep | (b) | Personification |
| (3) And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep. | (c) | Inversion |
| (4) My little horse must think it queer | (d) | Repetition |
Pick from the poem line which contain the Figure of speech.
Apostrophe
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Exclamation
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Antithesis
