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प्रश्न
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 |
उत्तर
Storm | Tiger | Pounces over the fields, growls |
Train | Snake | Long rope like body |
Fire | Sun | Symbol of power |
School | Temple | Teaches moral values, virtues |
Home | Shelter | Safety, warmth |
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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?
Identify Shakespeare's use of personification in the poem.
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 |
The poet has also used both repetition and similes in the poem. For example-- 'must wait, must stand and wait' (repetition) and 'looked at me vaguely as cattle do' (simile).Pick out examples of both and make a list of them in your notebooks. Give reasons why the poet uses these literary devices.
Pick out one example of the following Figure of Speech.
Repetition:
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Simile
Pick out from the poem two examples of each.
Metaphor
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____________ .
Choose the correct Figure of speech that occurs in the following line. Justify your choice.
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall ____________.
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.
Antithesis
- ________________
- ________________
Find out examples from the poem.
Alliteration
‘I hear the bright bee hum.’ The poet has used the word ‘hum’ that indicates the sound made by the bee. This is an example of Onomatopoeia. The poet has used different figures of speech like alliteration, inversion, and hyperbole in the poem. Identify them and pick out the lines accordingly.
Alliteration
Pick out lines that contain:
Pun
Pick out lines that contain the following Figure of Speech.
Metaphor
Find from the poem, one example of the following.
Tautology
Pick out one or two other examples of allusion from the story and comment briefly on the comparison made.