Unit 4 - 4.4 The Height of the Ridiculous — English STD 10 — Question

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

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

Find out lines from the poem as a proof for the following :

(a) Tagore wishes for a nation where people are truthful.

(b) The poet would like everyone to work hard to reach their goal and in the long run to reach perfection.

(c) The poet wishes that everyone in his country holds his head high in dignity.

(d) The poet dreams of a nation where knowledge should be free to all.

(e) The poem is a 'prayer'.

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

Discuss with your group and justify the title of the poem 'The Pulley' in your own words.

Find the lines from the extract which mean:
(a) become crazy for the goal
(b) toil hard happily
(c) get rid of all fears
(d) make efforts continuously

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

Pick out examples of Alliteration from the extract.

Pick out an example of Simile from the extract.

Find examples of Alliteration from the poem.