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प्रश्न
Read the following lines from the poem and answer the question that follow.
And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears;
What figure of speech is used in ‘watered it in fears’?
उत्तर
The figure of speech used here is a ‘metaphor’
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And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright.
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Till it bore an apple bright.
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