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Question
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.
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Solution
- Life seems useless and worthless without it. The words ‘useless’ and ‘worthless’ have almost the same meaning.
- Neither cold poverty, famish. The words ‘poverty’ and ‘famish’ imply almost the same human physical condition.
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