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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.
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Solution
| Repetition | Simile |
| • And must wait, must stand and wait | • as cattle do, as drinking cattle do |
| • to feel so honoured I felt so honoured | • Lifted his head from his drinking, as cattle do |
| • And slowly and slowly very slowly | • He had come like a guest in quiet. |
| • I was afraid | • And lifted his head dreamily, as one who has tongue. |
| • I was most afraid | • And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air |
| • from the burning bowels of the earth | • And looked around like a God |
| • Into the burning bowels of the earth | • writhed like lightning • he seemed to me again like a king. |
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| 2. They were so queer, so very queer. | Alliteration |
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| 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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Hyperbole
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
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With worn-out tools ____________.
Pick out line that contain the following Figures of Speech.
Repetition
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| 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 |
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
She wept____________of tears.
Complete the following examples of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
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Inversion
Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.
Apostrophe
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