(A)Match the following lines with figures of speech
(i) Decisions, I must make (b) Inversion
(ii) Please open up my eyes,
dear Lord. (a) Apostrophe
(iii) Travel down the
darkened road (d)Alliteration
(iv) I can choose to take the
road of life (c) Metaphor
(B.) Identify the Figures of speech used from those given in the bracket.
(Simile/Repetition/Antithesis/Personification/Metaphor/Alliteration/Apostrophe)
(a) “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs” ANTITHESIS : Opposite ideas are brought together
(b) “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same” PERSONIFICATION : Triumph and disaster are considered to be human being.
ANTITHESIS : Opposite words 'triumph and disaster' are brought together.
METAPHOR : 'triumph and disaster ' are implicitly compared to impostors
(c) “And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise” REPETITION : The word ' too ' is repeated pleasingly.
(d) With worn-out tools ALLITERATION : The consonantal sound 'w' is repeated pleasingly.
(C) Find from the poem, one example of each of the following.
(a) Personification : "The ship has weather’d every rack." The ship is given the human quality of overcoming the difficulty.
(b) Alliteration : I) Rise up-for you the flag is flung
ii) The ship is anchor'd safe and sound
(c) Repetition : But O heart! heart! heart!
(d) Exclamation : Here Captain! dear father!
(e) Tautology : "For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths"
A tautology is a repetition of the meaning of a statement, using different words or symbols
(f) Antithesis : From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
(g) Inversion : "the bells I hear" The arrangement of words is not in a prose order . The correct prose order is - I hear the bells.
(h) Transferred Epithet : eager faces - An adjective ' eager ' is transferred to faces.
(D) Identify the Figures of Speech
(1) Whose woods these are
I think I know. : Inversion
(2) The woods are lovely,
dark and deep. : Alliteration
(3) And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep. : Repetition
(4) My little horse must think it queer : Personification
(5) O moon, --- APOSTROPHE : An absent/inanimate object 'moon' is addressed.
(6) give me moonlight,. ALLITERATION : The consonantal sound 'm' is repeated pleasingly.
(7) basketful or two baskets full, REPETITION : The word is repeated.
(8) small, small moons of light. , REPETITION : The word is repeated.
(9)give me a basketful of moonlight ALLITERATION : The consonantal sound 'm' is repeated pleasingly.
(E)Pick out lines that contain :
1. Alliteration
(a) In form and feature, face and limb,
(b) It puzzled all our kith and kin,
(c) One day, to make the matter worse,
2. Hyperbole
(a) And when I died, the neighbours came
And buried brother John.
(b) For somehow, my intended bride
Became my brother's wife.
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1. Alliteration
(a) In form and feature, face and limb,
(b) It puzzled all our kith and kin,
(c) One day, to make the matter worse,
2. Hyperbole
(a) And when I died, the neighbours came
And buried brother John.
(b) For somehow, my intended bride
Became my brother's wife.
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