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

Pick out an example of Metaphor from the extract.

Pick out two lines from the extract that contain the figure of speech 'Inversion'.

Pick out an example of Antithesis from the extract:

Identify the figures of speech in the followinglines:
(a) I stand and look at them long and long.
(b) They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
(c) They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.
(d).. not one is demented with the mania of owning things.
(e) They bring me tokens of myself. - Paradox
(f) No one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. - Hyperbole

Complete the table of rhyming words:

Words	Rhyming words from the poem	Rhyming words of your own
Way
Him
Dle
Mood

Find the figures of speech in the line: 'Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

May he sit still, they said
May your suffering decrease the misfortunes of your next birth, they said.
May the sum of all evil balanced in this unreal world against the sum of good become diminished by your pain.
May the sins of your previous birth be burned away tonight, they said. May the poison purify your flesh of desire, and your spirit of ambition, they said, and they sat around on the floor with my mother in the centre. the peace of understanding on each face.
More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours more insects, and the endless rain.

Pick out examples of Alliteration from the extract:

Find the lines from the extract which mean :
extremely poor condition

Give an example of each of the following from the extract:
(a) Tautology.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Repetition.

Find examples of Alliteration from the poem.