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

Pick out an example of Antithesis from the extract :

Pick out an example of Antithesis from the extract:

Pick out an example of Onomatopoeia from the extract.

Pick out an example of Personification from the extract:

Do you think the line 'Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for it' means that one should be 'desperate' or 'restless' to achieve one's goal? Explain your opinions.

Read the poem and write :
(a) the rhyme scheme of lines 1 to 8.
(b) The number of stressed syllables in the line: A thing of beauty is a joy forever;

Choose the correct figures of speech that occur in the following lines. Justify your choice.
(1)....but still we keep a bower quiet for us....
(a) Simile (b) Irony (c) Metaphor
(2) Some shape of beauty moves away the pall.....
(a) Personification (b) Alliteration (c) Hyperbole
(3) A thing of beauty is a joy forever....
(a) Epigram (b) Antithesis (c) Climax
(4) Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon.
(a) Exclamation (b) Personification (c) Antithesis

'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.

Give one example of Rhetorical Question from the poem. Explain.

Find examples of Alliteration from the poem.