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प्रश्न
‘Pun’ can be defined as a play on words based on their different meanings. Example: ‘Writing with a broken pencil is pointless.’ In this poem, there is an example of Pun. Find and make a sentence of your own. Share a joke with the class where the use of ‘Pun’ creates humour.
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This actor has lots of dates.
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One day a wonderful plate full in gold fell from Heaven into a courtyard of a temple at Benaras; so on the plate these words were inscribe. "A gift from Heaven to he who loves better". The priests at once made a announcement that every -day at noon, all which would like to claimed the plate should come |
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You know that a metaphor compares two things by transferring a feature of one thing to the other.
Find metaphors for the following words and complete the table below. Also try to say how they are alike. The first is done for you.
| Storm | Tiger | Pounces over the fields, growls |
| Train | ||
| Fire | ||
| School | ||
| Home |
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 |
Find out the examples of ‘Metaphor’ from the poem.
Match the Figures of Speech with the correct definition.
| Poetic Devices | |
| Figure | Definition |
| (1) Metaphor | (a) The use of the same sound at the beginning of words |
| (2) Alliteration | (b) An implied comparison. |
| (3) Onomatopoeia | (c) A comparison between two different things, especially a phrase, containing the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ |
| (4) Simile | (d) A word that resembles the sound it represents. |
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
Not one is demented with the mania of owning things.
Identify the Figure of Speech in the following line.
They bring me tokens of myself.
Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/ Repetition/ Antithesis/ Personification/ Metaphor/ Alliteration/ Apostrophe)
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs”
The Figure of Speech ‘Apostrophe’ exists throughout the poem. Pick out the line where the poet directly addresses.
the dead Captain
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Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Alliteration
