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Figures of speech class 12 NCERT FLAMINGO

 Poem 1. My mother at sixty six 

  1. Young trees sprinting... Ans-personification


  1. The merry children spilling... 

Ans- personification 


  1. The young trees sprinting and merry children spilling... Ans - internal rhyme, personification


  1. Pale as a late Winter's moon...

Ans- simile


  1. But all said was, see you soon Amma...

Ans- alliteration and apostrophe

 

  1. All I did was smile, smile and smile...Ans- repetition 



Poem. 2 An Elementary school classroom in a slum 


1) far far from gusty waves,these children's faces.....

Ans. Repetition (far far), alliteration 


2) Like rootless weeds....

Ans. Simile


3) the paper-seeming boy... 

Ans. Simile


4) with rat's eyes.... 

Ans. Metaphor


5) ....sealed with a lead sky.. 

Ans. Symbolism, metaphor


6) for lives that slyly turn in their cramped holes.. (house, shaks) 

Ans. Metaphor 


7) these children wear skins ..

Ans. Paradox 


8) so blot their maps with slums as big as doom

Ans. Comparison 


9) ....upon their lives like catacombs... 

Ans. Simile 


10) Break o break open till....

Ans. Apostrophe, repetition



Poem 3. Keeping Quiet 


  1.... and we will all keep still 

 Ans.  Internal rhyme 


  2. For once on the face of the earth

Ans. metaphor/personification 


 3. without rush without engine 

Ans.  repetition,


4. and not move our arms so much

Ans. Pun (arms=hands, arms= weapons) 


5. In a sudden strangeness 

Ans.  Alliteration


6. Wars with gas wars with fire

Ans.  Repetition/anaphora


7. Victory with no survivors 

Ans.  Paradox


8. A huge silence might interrupt

Ans.   paradox,


9. Perhaps the earth can teach us

Ans.  Personification 


Poem 4. A thing of beauty 

  1. A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

Ans. Metaphor, hyperbole 


  1. A bower quiet for us… 

Ans. Metaphor


  1. Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing...

Ans. Inversion (sentence is inverted -we are wreathing written as are we wreathing) 


  1. Trees old and young sprouting a shady boon… 

Ans. Antithesis (juxtaposition of contrast ideas)


  1. For simple sheep and such are daffodils...

Ans. Alliteration


  1. That is for themselves a cooling covert make… 

Ans.  Alliteration 


  1. An endless fountain of immortal drink… 

Ans. Metaphor, symbolism.


Poem 5. A Roadside Stand 


  1. The little old house with a little new shed… 

Ans. Repetition


  1. A roadside stand that too pathetically pled...

Ans. Alliteration 


  1. Of signs that with N turned wrong and S turned wrong...

Ans. Repetition


  1. The polished traffic passed with a mind ahead… 

Ans.  Epithet, alliteration, personification 


  1. While greedy good-doers, beneficent beasts of prey… 

Ans.  Alliteration 


  1. Of all thousands cars that pass… 

Ans. Personification 


  1. So much as the trusting sorrow of what is unsaid… 

Ans. Transferred Epithet 


Poem 6. Aunt Jennifer's Tiger


  1. Bright topaz denizens of a world of green… 

Ans.  metaphors


  1. They pace as sleek chivalric certainty 

Ans. Alliteration 


  1. Aunt Jennifer's fingers fluttering through her wool… 

Ans. Personification, alliteration


  1. ...still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by… 

Ans.  Pun


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