Unit 2 - 2.1 Animals — English STD 10 — Question

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

Complete the table of rhyming words:

Lines	Figures of Speech
(1) The grin grew broad	(a) Onomatopoeia
(2) And shot from ear to ear	(b) Hyperbole
(3) He broke into a roar	(c) Transferred Epithet
(4) Ten days and nights with sleepless eye	(d) Alliteration

Pick out an example of Personification from the extract:

Divide the class into two groups. One group should offer points in favour of (views) and the other against (counterviews) the topic : 'The life of an animal is better than that of a human being. Later use the points to express your own views/counterviews in paragraph format in your notebook.

Pick out the lines that contain Imagery (a picture created in the mind by using words) of the following people:
(i) Schoolboy (2nd stage)
(ii) Soldier (4th stage)

Write two pairs of rhyming words from the extract:

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

Pick out an example of Antithesis from the extract:

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 Personification from the poem.