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SEC Creative Writing Worksheet 2
SEC Creative Writing Worksheet 2
Worksheet 2
Exercise 1: Identify and explain the figures of speech (simile, metaphor, personification, etc.)
in the given poem as suggested by the lines in bold.
Sample 1: “Windy Night” by Jibanananda Das tr. Supriya Chaudhuri
All the dead stars woke up – there was no empty space in the sky.
Exercise 2: Match the columns to create oxymorons and paradoxes and explain them:
Column A Column B
Filthy But some animals are more equal than
others
The Child is Ethics
Civil Glass
Plastic Rich
Business The father of the Man
Fair is foul War
All animals are equal, And foul is fair
A. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in
want of a wife.