Unit 1 - 1.1 Where the mind is Without fear — English STD 10 — Question

Pick out and write 5 lines that contain imagery.

Name and explain the poetic devices used in the following lines:
(a) creeping like a snail
(b) Soldier bearded like the pard
(c) Sighing like furnace
(d) men and women merely players
(e) They have their exits and their entrances
(f) With a woeful ballad

Find examples of 'Climax' from the extract.

Pick out an example of Antithesis from the extract:

Find the lines from the extract which mean:
(a) become crazy for the goal
(b) toil hard happily
(c) get rid of all fears
(d) make efforts continuously

Pick out an example of Metaphor from the extract.

Complete the table of rhyming worda :

Words	Rhyming words from the poem	Rhyming words of your own
Ear
Within
Man
Split

Name and explain the figure of speech:
With the help of GOD you'll get it!

Many images of the scorpion contrast in the opening lines of the poem. Find examples of each and add them to the columns below:

Scorpion
Timid	Dangerous
(1) Hides beneath a sack of rice
(2) Is afraid of the people and goes back

Explain the figures of speech in the following lines:
(a) a glass of blessings
*(b) Rest in the bottom lay