Question

5. Explain the following literary terms with
suitable examples (any four) : 4x4-16
fa) Alliteration
(b) Fable
(c) Innuendo
(d) Oxymoron
explain the following literatury terms with suitable example (any four)

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Answer 1

Alliteration- Alliteration refers to the use of two or more words that begin with the same sound in close proximity to one another.
Example- 1. Whose woods
2. His house
3. Watch his woods fill up with
4. He gives his harness
Fable- Fable, narrative form, usually featuring animals that behave and speak as human beings, told to highlight human follies and weaknesses.
Example- 1. The fox and the grapes
2. The lion and the mouse
3. The tortoise and the hare
4. The fox and the crow
Innuendo- An innuendo is a veiled remark about someone or something that indirectly insinuates something bad or impolite. When taken literally, an innuendo can sound quite innocent, yet it hides a more unsavoury meaning.
Example-1. Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all
questions?
2. From below your duke to beneath your constable, it
will fit any question.
3. It must be an answer of most monstrous size that
must fit all demands.
4. I’ll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer
Oxymoron- a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction
1. Suddenly the room filled with a deafening silence.
2. The comedian was seriously funny.
3. You are confused by the situation you have found yourself in.
4. Her singing was enough to raise the living dead.
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