Unit 4 - 4.1 A Thing of Beauty is a Joy For Ever — English STD 10 — Question

Write two pairs of rhyming words from the extract:

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

Pick out three lines that contain the monologues of God.

Does the poem retain a steady rhythm throughout?

Pick out an example of Metaphor from the extract.

Pick out the lines from the extract that are the examples of the following:
(a) Consonance : (b) Assonance:
(2) That whether there be shine or gloom o'ercast

The poem is entirely metaphorical. Pick out the comparison from the extract: last stage (old age)

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

Find examples of Metaphor from the poem.

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: