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प्रश्न
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.
उत्तर
| Excerpt | Literary device |
| 1. out of the sea come he, | Personification: The sun has been compared to a human being capable of movement. |
| 2. And it would work’em woe. | Alliteration: The letter’ w’ has been repeated thrice. |
| 3. Nor dim nor red, like God’s own head, | Simile: Sun has been compared to God’s glorious head. |
| 4. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew The furrow followed free | Alliteration: The letter ‘f has been repeated and blew and flew has repetition of ew sound. |
| 5. And we did speak only to break the silence of the sea! | Hyperbole: The speakers have exaggerated their action of speaking. |
| 6. All in a hot and copper sky the bloody sun at noon | Metaphor: Sky and the sun have been indirectly compared to copper and blood respectively. |
| 7. As idle as a painted ship | Simile: The ship has been compared to a painting. |
| 8. Day after day, day after Say | Repetition: The words have been repeated. |
| 9. Water, water every where not any drop to drink. | Irony: Though there is lot of water but the sailors could not drink even a single drop. |
| 10. The death-fires danced at night. | Personification: Fire has been shown as doing a dance of death. |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines normally-contradictory terms. The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination of two words like- failed success
Writers often use an oxymoron to call attention to an apparent contradiction. For example, Wilfred Owen's poem The Send-off refers to soldiers leaving for the front line, who "lined the train with faces grimly gay." The oxymoron 'grimly gay' highlights the
contradiction between how the soldiers feel and how they act: though they put on a brave face and act cheerful, they feel grim. Some examples of oxymorons are- dark sunshine, cold sun, living dead, dark light, almost exactly etc. The story Mrs. Packletide's Tiger has a number of oxymorons. Can you identify them and write them down in your notebooks?
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.
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.
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They bring me tokens of myself.
Pick out two lines that contain the following figures of speech.
Inversion
- ______________
- ______________
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 |
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Repetition
Pick out one or two other examples of allusion from the story and comment briefly on the comparison made.
