Figures of speech observed in the following Poems

“If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail, If you can’t be the Sun, be a Star; It is not the size that you win or you fail Be the Best of whatever you are!…..” The Rhyme Scheme in the above given lines is

Identify the figure of speech used in the following poetic line. In the world’s broad field of battle

Select the correct answer from the options given below : A statement tells something. But actually it means the opposite is known as

“The reddest flower would look as pale as snow for, all day, we drag our burden tiring”. Mention the figure of speech employed in the above lines.

‘As humble plants by country hedgerows growing that treasure up the rain’. The figure of speech employed here is ………….

Identify the poetic line that differs in figure of speech from the other poetic lines.

What kind of figure of speech is applied in the following poetic line? ‘Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere O my soul’

“Harmonic cacophony to oblivious ears” – Shilpi Identify the figure of speech employed in this line.

We ran as if to meet the moon. Identify the figure of speech.

Identify the poetic line that differs in figure of speech, from the other lines.

The rhyme scheme of the following line is Let us, be up and doing With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing Learn to labour and to wait.

Identify the figure of speech in the following poetic line·. And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide

Identify the figure of speech in the given poetic line. A mother like the mom you were to me.

“On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna Smoking”. What type of allusion is used here?

Find out the figures of speech in the following lines : “Laugh till the game is played”

Act – act in the living present ! What is the figure of speech employed here?

Don’t give up, though pace seems slow” What is the figure of speech employed here?

Find out the allusion applied here: “Dust thou art, to dust returnest .. ”

Find out the figure of speech in the following poetic lines : “O If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same”.

“Appearances can be deceptive And to the superficial gaze The outside looks dull and grey Plain looking in many ways”. The Rhyme Scheme used in the above given lines is

Identify the figure of speech used in the following poetic line : And all day the iron wheels are droning

Find out the figure of speech used in this line from the options given below : “He lifted his head from his drinking as cattle do”

We ran as if to meet the moon : Choose the figure of speech from the options given.

Repetition of the same line at the end of each stanza is called

“How beautiful you are, Earth and how sublime”. Mention the figure of speech from the options given.

Identify the figure of speech used in the following poetic line. ‘That hung like clustered stars’

Identify the figure of speech used in this line : “Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere O my soul”

Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line. ‘The reddest flower would look as pale as snow’

‘Be a bush, if you can’t be a tree’ Mention the figure of speech of the above line

“In the beginning was the word And the word was God” What is the allusion made here?

And sings a melancholy strain’, -The Solitary Reaper The figure of speech used here is —-

The figure of speech used in the line, “Old age and youth alike mistaught, misfed” of the poem – To a Millionaire, is

The repetition of a line or lines through a poem, at given intervals is

Choose the best answer given below. “The reddest flower would look as pale as snow”: The figure of speech used is

Identify the poetic line that differs from others :

Pick out the words in alliteration in “The barren boughs without the leaves”. Find out the correct answer from the following options :

“I spread my wings through all the din ; Through fears and fright I fly my flight”. Identify the group of words which has alliteration in them – Find out the correct answer from the options given below :

‘O ye wheels’ (breaking out in a mad moaning) ‘Stop ! be silent for today !’ The figure of speech used here is——-

Which figure of speech suits for the underlined word in the given sentence? The crow caws

“And underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, The reddest flower would look as pale as snow”. The figure of speech employed in the above lines is ——­ Choose the correct answer from the choices given below

Identify the poetic line which is not having Simile as the figure of speech from the following options:

Complete the given Simile with the apt name of the animal from the given options : as fast as——-.

There won’t be any calendar, there won’t be any clock ; The alliterated words here are——-: Pick out the correct answer from the options given below :

Identify the poetic line that differs in figure of speech from the other poetic lines; from the options given below :

Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld Identify the figure of speech employed in the poetic line from the options given below :

Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line : The reddest flower would look as pale as snow

Identify the figure of speech in “And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air, so black”.

‘Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds’ – What is the figure of speech presented in these lines?

“And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, I The reddest !lower would look as pale as snow”. The figure of speech used here is

In “O Captain My Captain! My Captain our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won”, Captain and ship are examples of

The word ‘aching joy’ is an example of

“Now drops that floated on the pool Like pearls, and now a silver blade“. What figure of speech can you find in the underlined part of the above lines?

“Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit” What figure of speech can be identified in the aforesaid line from the poem, “Where the Mind is Without Fear”?

Identify the statement that best explains the use of metaphor in “laugh till the game is played; and be you merry, my friend”.

In “On the day of Sicilian July, with Etna smoking” The reference to Sicilian· July is an example of

“How beautiful you are, Earth, and how sublime How perfect your obedience to the light and how – noble is your submission to the sun” What is the figure of speech used in the above lines?

Match the poetic lines under column A with the figures of speech under column B and select the correct answer from the codes given below :

Column A	Column B
(a) You are the mouth and lips of eternity	l. Alliteration
(b) About the fun of flying	2. Onomatoepia
(c) In the boom of the tingling strings	3. Metaphor
(d) The ship h as weather’d every rack…	4. Personification

The line “A slender tinkling fall that made” contains——

Which figure of speech does the expression, “the hissing noise of the snake” contain?

“The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done” – The figure of speech used by Walt Whitman in these lines is——

What is a refrain?

which among the following is an example for onomatopoeic words?

An implied simile is a ——-

The following line is from the play ,Julius Caesar. “O Judg’ment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts” The figure of speech employed in the above line is

In Julius Caesar, Antony says, “For Brutus is an honourable man”. – Here the tone of Antony is one of

Pick out the rhyming words in the given lines: ‘Through the coal-dark underground Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron In the factories round and round’

For the soul is dead that slumbers” Identify the option with words in alliteration.

Identify the figure of speech in the line: ‘O winging words! Like homing bees you borrow’.

Identify the words in alliteration in the lines: ‘Like gnomes that hid us from the moon Ready to run to hiding new With laughter when she found us soon’.

“A Slender tinkling fall that made”. In the above quoted lines from Going for water by Robert Frost the figure of speech that occur is

Identify the poetic line that differs in figure of speech from the other poetic lines :

A child sitting under the Piano, in the boom of the tingling strings. The figure of speech in the above underlined phrase is

O! ye wheels! (breaking out in a mad moaning) Stop! be silent for to-day! The figure of speech used here is

Harmonic cacophony to oblivions ears. Identify the figure of speech.

For Brutus is an honorable man. Which poetic device is used by Shakespeare in this line?

“With the tea-cups circling round me like the planets round the sun” Identify the figure of speech in the above lines.

A mirror of his changing moods Mention the figure of speech employed in this line

Identify the sentence with Hyperbole.

Identify the figure of speech in the following sentence . She accepted it as the kind cruelty of the surgeon’s knife.

Harmonic cacophony to oblivious ears Identify the figure of speech used in the given line

And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide ….. The figure of speech employed here is

Identify the figure of speech used in the given lines. He steps back, surveys with close scrutiny, then sharp critical glare.

Identify the poetic line that differs in Figure Speech from the other lines.

….. my manhood is cast down in the flood of rememberance. The figure of speech employed in this line is——.

The figure of speech used in the line. Dust thou art to dust returnest is

Identify the figure of speech employed in the given lines : Have you noticed how some people, May seem plain as plain can be?

“If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the will which says to them; “Hold on!”. The Rhyme Scheme of this stanza is

“Anew discovered Treasure…..” The figure of speech employed in this line is——.

The rhyme scheme of the following lines is—– ‘For Oh, Say the Children, “We are weary, And we cannot run or leap – If we cared for any meadows, it were merely To drop down in them and sleep.

Identify the poetic line that differs in Figure Speech from the other lines.

Identify the figure of speech employed in this line : “The reddest flower would look as pale as snow”

Let me not to the marriage of true minds” Identify the figure of speech employed in the above line :

Good men perform just deeds, and brave men die And win not honour such as gold can give While the vain multitudes plod on, and live And serve the curse that pins them down But I. Identify the rhyme scheme in the given lines.

“Like a golden swarm of fireflies you came”. Identify the figure of speech employed in the poetic line :

Identify the poetic line that differs in figure of speech from the other poetic lines :

Laugh till the game is played and be you merry, my friends. In the above quoted lines from ‘Laugh and be Merry’ by John Masefield the figure of speech that occur is

Find out the figure of speech in the following line. “O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark”

Find out the figure of speech in the following line. “In solitary confinement as complete as any goal”

Find out the figure of speech in the following lines. “He stalks in his vivid stripes The few steps of his cage”

In the line, “Harmonic cacophony to oblivious ears” ‘Harmonic cacophony’ is an example of

“The globe’s my world. The cloud’s my kin?” Identify the figure of speech employed in the above line

Till the gossamer thread you Fling Catch somewhere, O my soul, What Figure of speech can you find in the underlined part of the above line

The reddest flower would look as pale as snow” What is the figure of speech employed in this line?

“I’m sick of hearing them cheep-cheep” What is the figure of speech employed here?

‘Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding’ What figure of speech can be identified in the above line from the poem, “The Nation United”