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Answer the fllowing

1. How cn man make tis world a beter plac to live in?
2. What is man's span o lie cmpard to?
3. What did God fel when He crated the earh?
4. Who ar the guests and where do they stay?
5. What is rfered to as a beautiful inn?
6. How should man trat his fllow beings?
7. "Glad till the dancing stops, and the lilt of the music ends. Explain.
8. "So we must laugh and drink fom te deep blue cup of the sk," - Mention the
fgur of speech.
9. "Laugh till the game is played" - what is the game refrd to here?
10. Write an apprciation of the poem in about 100 words.
B. What is the rhyme scheme used in the firt stana of the poem?
It is aabb ..... .
Rhyme scheme is te patern o rhyming lines in a stanza or poem. Some ryme
schemes apply to a single stnza while some others cntinue teir patern thrughout
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the poem. Ever rhyming wor in a stanza is given a leter and te leter is always in
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the lower cse. For example:
J song a wrong - a span b man b
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C. Figurs of Speech
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A fgure of speech is an exraordinar mode of expression used in poetr. It enhances
the beauty o the poem and efectiveness of the lines.
(1) Al litrtion is the repetition o the inital cnsonant sound in several wors in
the same line.
"So we must laugh and drink fm te deep blue cup of the sk,
Join the jubilant song of the great star sweeping by"
'Drnk - deep' and 'join - jubilanf are alliterted wors.
In te frt line, Idl is repeated (drinkoeep), and in the secnd line /j/ is
rpeated (joinjubilant).
Find out to mor instncs of allitertion in the pm.
(2) Simile is a cmparison made beteen to objects of difrent kinds which
have some resemblance. A simile is usually introucd by a wor of
cmparison such as - like, so, as, as ... so.
(3)
Metphor is a cndensed or an implied Simile.
"Laugh tll the game is played ........ - Metaphor is used her. Lif is
cmpard to a game. When we say "Lie is like a game", then it is a simile.
If we say, "Life is a game", it is again a metaphor.
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