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प्रश्न
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. |
उत्तर
| Object | Metaphor | Quality or Feature Compared |
| Cloud | Huge mountains of clouds | The mass or ‘hugeness’ of mountains |
| Raindrops | A curtain of rain | The draping or covering of an area by a curtain |
| Hailstones | The frozen pearls | The resemblance in colour and hardness of a pearl |
| Locusts | A plague of locusts | The consequences (destruction) of plague |
| Locusts | A plague of locusts | An epidemic (a disease) that spreads very rapidly and leaves many people dead |
| Man | An ox of a man | The working of an ox in the fields (hard work) |
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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.
Like part one, the second part also has a number of literary devices. List them out in the same way as you had done in question number seven and explain them.
Find out the examples of ‘Metaphor’ from the poem.
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Repetition:
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Inversion
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
____________ but still we keep a bower quiet for us____________ .
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 |
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Antithesis
- ________________
- ________________
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Inversion
- ______________
- ______________
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/ Repetition/ Antithesis/ Personification/ Metaphor/ Alliteration/ Apostrophe)
“And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise”
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/ Repetition/ Antithesis/ Personification/ Metaphor/ Alliteration/ Apostrophe)
With worn-out tools ____________.
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.
Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.
Inversion
Pick from the poem lines which contain the Figures of speech.
Apostrophe
The Figure of Speech ‘Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.
the dead Captain
- ____________
- ____________
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Alliteration
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Repetition
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Tautology
