Unit 3 - 3.1 Night of the Scorpion — English STD 10 — Question

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)

Pick out examples of Alliteration from the extract.

Pick out examples of Alliteration from the extract.

Name and explain the figures of speech:
(a) The Pulley
(b) Bestow this jewel also on my creature.
(c) And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature.

'For if I should' (sald He)
Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts Instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature.
So both should losers be.
Yet let him keep the rest.
But keep them with repining restlessness: Let him be rich and weary, that at last, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness may toss Him to my breast.

Write the rhyming words from the lines.

Pick out an example of Alliteration from the extract.

Match the words given in Table A with their meanings in Table B:

A	B
(1) whine	(a) an offence against religious ormoral law
(2) sin	(b) complain in an annoying way
(3) evince	(c) mental illness
(4) mania	(d) failing to take proper care
(5) negligent	(e) show

What effect does the repetition of the word 'where' at the beginning of each line achieve?

Find examples of Metaphor from the poem.

Find the appropriate meaning of the following line:
With all your capacity, strength and sagacity