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Figures of Speech
I. 1.1 The person I am looking for
1. If you do not get lowered in your eyes

While you raise yourself in those of others
Ans: Antithesis- Opposite words like lower and raise are used in the same sentence.
2. If you do not give in to gossips and lies

Ans: Alliteration- The letter ‘g’ is repeated to give a poetic effect
3. If you crave not for praise when you win

And look not for sympathy while you lose
Ans: Antithesis – Opposite words win and lose
4. If you crave not for praise when you win

Ans: Alliteration – The letter w is repeated
5. And after a set-back you offer no excuse

Ans: Inversion – The correct order is ‘And you offer no excuse after a set-back’
6. If you have the will to live and courage to die

Ans: Antithesis – Opposite words to live and to die
7. You are a beacon –light for people far and wide

Ans: Metaphor – An indirect comparison is made between you and beacon light
8. That virtue and success do not go side by side

Ans: Repetition – The word ‘side’ is repeated
Alliteration – The alphabet ‘s’ is repeated
II. 2.1 I ran into a stranger
1. We went on our way and we said good-bye

Ans: Alliteration- W
2. How we treat our loved ones, young and old
Ans: Antithesis – Young & Old
3. God’s still small voice came to me and said

Ans: Alliteration- S
Personification – God is given the human quality of having a voice
4. While dealing with a stranger common courtesy you use

Ans: Alliteration- C
Inversion – You use common courtesy while dealing with a stranger
5. But the children you love, you seem to abuse

Ans: Repetition – You
Inversion – You seem to abuse, the children you love
6. She stood quietly not to spoil the surprise

Ans: Alliteration – S
7. She stood quietly not to spoil the surprise

And you never saw the tears in her eyes
Ans: Anticlimax – Ideas are arranged in descending order
8. I felt very small

Ans: Pun- small has different meanings
9. Wake up, little girl, wake up,” I said

Ans: Repetition – WAKE UP
10. Are these the flowers you picked for me?

Ans: Rhetorical – no answer is expected
11. They’re pretty like you

Ans: Simile – direct comparison between flower and poetess
12. She smiled, “I found’em, out by the tree.

I picked’em because they’re pretty like you
Ans: Climax –ideas are arranged in ascending order
3.1 SUBURBS
1. I celebrate the virtues and vices
Ans: Paradox – two opposite ideas like virtues and vices cannot be celebrated together
Alliteration - V
2. who overwhelm the refrigerator

Ans: Symbolism – Refrigerator refers to the several other things middle class people use
3. What are you and what am I, and we go on deciding the real truth in this world
Ans: Repetition – What
Alliteration – W
4. Manufacturers in indivisible granaries

Ans: Symbolism – Granaries- workplace of the middle class people
5. Where executions were always born

And grow up and always multiply
Ans: Climax – increasing order
6. We heroes and poor devils

The feeble, the braggarts, the unfinished
And capable of everything impossible
As long as it’s not seen or heard
Ans: Paradox – Opposite ideas
7. or of a shy hotel for travelers

Ans: Transferred Epithet – Shy is transferred from travelers to hotel
8. The feeble, the braggarts, the unfinished

Ans: Repetition – THE
Climax – Increasing order
9. Since they seemed so much like us

10. Until they were robbed of their laurels

Climax – Increasing order
4.1 Old women
1. Or, trembling like waves

Ans: Simile – Old Women’s trembling are compared to waves
2. or settle like sterile clouds

Ans: Simile – Direct comparison
Alliteration – S
3. They whisper like drizzles

Ans: Simile - Direct comparison
Onomatopoeia – Whispering sound
4. They shiver like December night

Ans: Simile - Direct comparison
5. There is one folk tale for each wrinkle on their skin

Ans: Metaphor – Wrinkle indirectly compared to a tale
6. All dawns pass leaving them in the dark

Ans: Antithesis – dawn & dark
7. They do not fear death, they died long ago

Ans: Personification – death is given human quality
Paradox – opposite ideas
8. Old Women once were continents

Ans: Metaphor –Indirect comparison
9. Even raging gulfs

Ans: Onomatopoeia- raging
10. Leaving only their maps

Ans: Metaphor- Indirect comparison
5.1 The felling of Banyan Tree
1. My father told the tenants to leave

Ans: Alliteration – T
2. Who lived in the houses surrounding our house on the hill

Ans: Alliteration – H
3. One by one the structures were demolished

Only our house remained and the trees
Ans: Antithesis – demolished & remained
4. One by one the structures were demolished

Ans: Repetition – One
5. Only our house remained and the trees

Ans: Alliteration – O
6. But the huge banyan tree stood like a problem

7. Whose roots lay deeper than all our lives

Ans: Metaphor - Indirect comparison
8. Trees are sacred my grandmother used to say

Ans: Inversion – My grandmother used to say that trees are sacred
9. It’s trunk had a circumference of fifty feet

Ans: Alliteration – F
10. The banyan tree was three times as tall as our house
11. Fifty men with axes chopped and chopped

Ans Repetition – Chopped
12. We watched in terror and fascination this slaughter

Ans: Antithesis – terror and Fascination
13. As a raw mythology revealed to us its age
Ans: Personification – raw mythology is given human quality
Inversion – As raw mythology revealed it’s age to us
14. Soon afterwards we left Baroda for Bombay

Ans: Alliteration – B
15. Its aerial roots looking for ground to strike

Ans: Personification - Aerial roots given a human quality
6.1 A Nation’s strength
1. It is not gold
Ans: Metonymy – Gold refers to the wealth of the nation
2. It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand go down in battle shock

Ans: Alliteration – G
3. Its shafts are laid on sinking sand, Not on abiding rock.

Ans: Antithesis - sinking sand & abiding rock
Alliteration – S
4. is it the sword?
Ans: Metonymy – Sword refers to the strength of the nation
5. Their glory to decay

Ans: Antithesis – Glory & decay
6. Ah, that bright crown

Ans: Metonymy – Crown stands for the king
7. But God has struck its luster down in ashes at his feet
Ans: Antithesis – Luster & Ashes
8. Stand fast and suffer long

9. Brave men who work while others sleep
Ans: Alliteration – W
Antithesis – work & sleep
7.1 Peace is a woman and a mother
1. Peace is a woman
Ans: Metaphor
2. She had such a wonderful face just like a golden flower faded
Ans: Simile
Alliteration – f
3. On my winding way to the world’s fare

Ans: Alliteration – w
4. Her daughter in Hiroshima and her sons in Vietnam

Ans: Antithesis – daughter and son
5. She told me her baby

Was killed in Auschwitz,
Her daughter in Hiroshima
And her sons in Vietnam,
Ireland, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon,
Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo and Chechnya
Ans: Hyperbole – exaggerated statement
6. A thousand candles then lit in her stary eyes

Ans: Hyperbole
7. Bearing a moonlit message

Ans: Alliteration – m
8. Peace is indeed a pregnant woman

Ans: Metaphor
Alliteration – p
9. Peace is a mother
Ans. Metaphor
8.1 Concrete Jungle
1. Only thinking about me, myself and I

Ans: Tautology – me, myself, Iare similar words
2. Only thinking in the present

Not learning from the past
Ans: Antithesis – present and past
3. Its morning dew tickling our feet

Ans: Personification – human quality
4. No more natural than the over-processed food we eat

Ans: Antithesis – natural and over-processed
5. We used to walk down the snow sprinkled trail

Ans: Alliteration – s
6. playing eye tricks with its tail

Ans: Alliteration – T
7. The one that is fur free

8. Now there is only one type of bobcat we see

Ans : Alliteration – O
9. We used to walk through a footpath in a forest of pine

10. We used to watch the valley play hide and seek

Ans: Antitheisis – Hide & seek
Personification – Human Quality is given to the valley
11. The wind caressing our crown
Ans: Personification –Human quality is given to win
Alliteration – C
12. Watching the magnificent untamed beasts roam far, far from the town
Ans: Repetition – far
Alliteration – F
13. No more vast, endless oceans

Ans: Tautology – Vast & endless

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I. 1.1 The person I am looking for

1. If you do not get lowered in your eyes

2. If you do not give in to gossips and lies

3. If you crave not for praise when you win

4. If you crave not for praise when you win

5. And after a set-back you offer no excuse

6. If you have the will to live and courage to die

7. You are a beacon –light for people far and wide

8. That virtue and success do not go side by side

II. 2.1 I ran into a stranger

1. We went on our way and we said good-bye

3. God’s still small voice came to me and said

4. While dealing with a stranger common courtesy you use

5. But the children you love, you seem to abuse

6. She stood quietly not to spoil the surprise

7. She stood quietly not to spoil the surprise

8. I felt very small

9. Wake up, little girl, wake up,” I said

10. Are these the flowers you picked for me?

11. They’re pretty like you

12. She smiled, “I found’em, out by the tree.

2. who overwhelm the refrigerator

4. Manufacturers in indivisible granaries

5. Where executions were always born

6. We heroes and poor devils

7. or of a shy hotel for travelers

8. The feeble, the braggarts, the unfinished

9. Since they seemed so much like us

10. Until they were robbed of their laurels

1. Or, trembling like waves

2. or settle like sterile clouds

3. They whisper like drizzles

4. They shiver like December night

5. There is one folk tale for each wrinkle on their skin

6. All dawns pass leaving them in the dark

7. They do not fear death, they died long ago

8. Old Women once were continents

9. Even raging gulfs

10. Leaving only their maps

1. My father told the tenants to leave

2. Who lived in the houses surrounding our house on the hill

3. One by one the structures were demolished

4. One by one the structures were demolished

5. Only our house remained and the trees

6. But the huge banyan tree stood like a problem

7. Whose roots lay deeper than all our lives

8. Trees are sacred my grandmother used to say

9. It’s trunk had a circumference of fifty feet

11. Fifty men with axes chopped and chopped

12. We watched in terror and fascination this slaughter

14. Soon afterwards we left Baroda for Bombay

15. Its aerial roots looking for ground to strike

6.1 A Nation’s strength

2. It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand go down in battle shock

3. Its shafts are laid on sinking sand, Not on abiding rock.

5. Their glory to decay

6. Ah, that bright crown

8. Stand fast and suffer long