Question

FIGURE OF SPEECH: 1) ‘Authority forgets a dying king’ 2) A lovelier flower on Earth was never sown 3) Which of the following is a direct address either to an absent person or to an abstract or inanimate entity 4) O Wild west wind, thou breathe of Autumn’s being 5) His honor rooted in dishonor stood. And faithful unfaithful kept him falsely true 5) Which of the following sentences has figures of speech called ‘Apostrophe? A- O Death! here is thy sting B-The more haste, the less speed C-Death lays his icy hands on kings 6) Life is but a walking shadow” is an example of 7) A lie has no legs 8) Love is blind 9) Break, Break, Break on thy cold grey stones, O sea! 9) -I loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love make up the sum. 10) The night is dark as a black stone​

Answer 1

1. Personification

2. Hyperbole

3.Climax

4.Personification

5. Antithesis

6.(A) Exclamation (B) Parodox (C)Personification

7.Personification

8. Metaphor

9.Following are examples of figures of speech and other rhetorical devices in "Break, Break, Break": Apostrophe (Lines 1 and 2): The narrator addresses the sea. Personification and metaphor also occur in Lines 1 and 2, for the poet regards the sea as a human being.

10. Transfer Epithet

11. Simile