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प्रश्न
Complete the table listing the poetic devices used by Shelley in Ozymandias.
Poetic Device | Lines from the poem |
Alliteration | ...and sneer of cold command |
Synecdoche (substitution of a part to stand for the whole, or the whole to stand for a part) | the hand that mock'd them |
उत्तर
Alliteration
Repetition of a initial sound
Two vast and trunkless legs …
cold command,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;
boundless and bare
lone and level sands stretch …………
Anastrophe
Inversion of the normal word order
… well those passions read (normally, read those passions well)
Enjambement (also spelled without the first e)
Carrying the sense of one line of verse over to the next line without a pause
… a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
“Whose frown, And wrinkled lip is the enjambement.
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
‘round the decay begins the enjambement.
Synecdoche
Substitution of a part to stand for the whole, or the whole to stand for a part
The hand that mocked them,
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The poet uses alliteration to heighten the musical quality of the sonnet. Working in pairs, underline the examples of alliteration in the poem.
In poetry, when words/ideas are arranged in ascending order of importance, the figure of speech used is called ‘Climax’. For example, Man should work for his family, his country, but most of all for God.
- Pick out two examples of ‘Climax’ from the poem.
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Inversion
Explain the Figure of Speech in the following line.
Rest in the bottom lay-PUN because _________________.
Find out examples from the poem.
Alliteration
Alliteration is the occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of words in a phrase, sentence, etc. such as ‘That life is lived it's very best.’
Find out more examples of Alliteration from other poems in your book.
Pick out lines that contain the following Figures of Speech.
Antithesis (Opposite ideas)
Pick out line that contain the following Figures of Speech.
Personification
Complete the following example of Hyperbole using words from the bracket below.
The hungry man ate a ____________ of food.
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Repetition