TO BE OR NOT TO BE

UNIT 2
• Personification
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole
• Irony
• Allegory
• Simile
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Rhyme
• Metaphor
• Couplet
• Quatrain
• Tercet
• Sestet
 Decide whether the following are a
couplet (C) or tercet (T) or quatrain (Q):
Life is a long travel with people many,
Some may be friend, but most enemy.
Life is a long travel with people many,
Some may be friend, but most enemy. ( C )
Now that the sun is set
The sky is cold and gray,
Should I for a bit rest?
I have come a long way!
Now that the sun is set
The sky is cold and gray,
Should I for a bit rest?
I have come a long way! ( Q)
So, till the judgement that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
So, till the judgement that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes. ( C )
Shall we go sing the song, the song?
Never love did ever wrong,
Fair maids, hold hands all along.
Shall we go sing the song, the song?
Never love did ever wrong,
Fair maids, hold hands all along. ( T )
Find the line with consonance.
a) None can make a fun with my son.
b) Why do my friends vie with me?
c) In your absence I live without my soul.
d) He helped her with housework at home.
Find the line with consonance.
a) None can make a fun with my son.
b) Why do my friends vie with me?
c) In your absence I live without my soul.
d) He helped her with housework at home.
Find the line with assonance.
a) None can make a fun with my son.
b) Why do my friends vie with me?
c) In your absence I live without my soul.
d) He helped her with housework at home.
Find the line with assonance.
a) None can make a fun with my son.
b) Why do my friends vie with me?
c) In your absence I live without my soul.
d) He helped her with housework at home.
Find the line with alliteration.
a) None can make a fun with my son.
b) Why do my friends vie with me?
c) In your absence I live without my soul.
d) He helped her with housework at home
Find the line with alliteration.
a) None can make a fun with my son.
b) Why do my friends vie with me?
c) In your absence I live without my soul.
d) He helped her with housework at home
 Are these alliterations?

"She sells seashells by the sea-shore."

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

 Are these oxymorons?
"I am a deeply superficial person.”
"We're busy doing nothing.”
"A joke is an extremely serious issue.”
•Decide which one is true according to the explanation:

•The clouds were shedding their tears / gray and black.

( personification )

•Love is an adventure into the unknown / like a fit of crisis.

( metaphor )

•He screamed like a thunderbolt / very loudly.

( simile )
•Decide which one is true according to the explanation:

•The clouds were shedding their tears / gray and black.

( personification )

•Love is an adventure into the unknown / like a fit of crisis.

( metaphor )

•He screamed like a thunderbolt / very loudly.

( simile )
•You are my sunshine / singing loudly.
( metaphor )

•The sun heats the plains / stretches its golden arms

across the plains.
( personification )

•He was as black as coal / wearing black jeans yesterday.

( simile )
•You are my sunshine / singing loudly.
( metaphor )

•The sun heats the plains / stretches its golden arms

across the plains.
( personification )

•He was as black as coal / wearing black jeans yesterday.

( simile )
•Mark TRUE (T) or FALSE(F):
•For personification, a dog should bark at
foreigners in a poem.

•It is easier to understand a metaphor in a poem

than a simile.

•If I say that this book is like a treasure in this

field, it becomes a simile.

•Sense devices depend on comparison or

resemblances between things.

•The use of the preposition ‘such as’ in

resemblances indicates simile.
•Mark TRUE (T) or FALSE(F):
•For personification, a dog should bark at
foreigners in a poem. ( F )

•It is easier to understand a metaphor in a poem

than a simile. ( F )

•If I say that this book is like a treasure in this

field, it becomes a simile. ( T )

•Sense devices depend on comparison or

resemblances between things. ( T )

•The use of the preposition ‘such as’ in

resemblances indicates simile. ( F )
•Finish the sentences with the correct device.

•The line “Sly snakes stay unmoving while waiting

in the ambush” contains the sound device of
………………………..

•If you say that you saw a fish drowning in the sea,
it is …………………..

•In the sentence “The wind was listening to the

sound of trees talking to each other,” we can find
an example of …………………………...

•“Weapons of peace” and “tears of happiness” are

examples of ………………………..
•The line “Sly snakes stay unmoving while waiting
in the ambush” contains the sound device of
alliteration.

•If you say that you saw a fish drowning in the sea,
it is irony.

•In the sentence “The wind was listening to the

sound of trees talking to each other,” we can find
an example of personification.

•“Weapons of peace” and “tears of happiness” are

exapmles of oxymoron.
•…………………….. is the use of the same
consonant sound in the middle or at the end of
some words in a line.

•If we remove the preposition of ‘like’ from the

phrase “My world is like a hell,” it becomes a
……………………….

•The line “I have fallen in love with you one

thousand times,” is an example of …………………..

•“It is my love that I’ve lost,

And I wonder which heart will host.”
These two lines end with a …………….....
•Consonance is the use of the same consonant
sound in the middle or at the end of some words in
a line.

•If we remove the preposition of ‘like’ from the

phrase “My world is like a hell,” it becomes a
metaphor.

•The line “I have fallen in love with you one

thousand times,” is an example of hyperbole.

•“It is my love that I’ve lost,

And I wonder which heart will host.”
These two lines end with a rhyme.
•The line “The knock on the door knocked me out,”
has an example of …………………………..

•The words “try” and “I” make up ……………………

in the line of a poem.

•The sense device of ……………………depends on

the preposition ‘like’.

•…………………….. aims at giving moral lessons

with concrete figures in place of abstract ideas or
principles.
•The line “The knock on the door knocked me out,”
has an example of onomatopoeia.

•The words “try” and “I” make up assonance in the

line of a poem.

•The sense device of simile depends on the

preposition ‘like’.

•Allegory aims at giving moral lessons with

concrete figures in place of abstract ideas or
principles.
Choose the best option.
1. ____________ creates musicality in a poem.
a) Oxymoron b) Metaphor c) Rhyme d) Personification

2. In the line “She is innocent like a drop of dew,” there is

____________.
a) irony b) assonance c)metaphor d) simile

3. If there are three lines in a stanza, it is called ____________.

a) couplet b) quatrain c) tercet d) sestet

4. ____________ is a human feeling and it is commonly used in

poems.
a) Jealousy b) Family c) War d) Beauty

5. The sound harmony in the words ‘mean’ and ‘keen’ in the line
“I mean I’m keen on you” is ____________.
a) assonance b) consonance c) rhyme d) hyperbole
Choose the best option.
1. ____________ creates musicality in a poem.
a) Oxymoron b) Metaphor c) Rhyme d) Personification

2. In the line “She is innocent like a drop of dew,” there is

____________.
a) irony b) assonance c)metaphor d) simile

3. If there are three lines in a stanza, it is called ____________.

a) couplet b) quatrain c) tercet d) sestet

4. ____________ is a human feeling and it is commonly used in

poems.
a) Jealousy b) Family c) War d) Beauty

5. The sound harmony in the words ‘mean’ and ‘keen’ in the line
“I mean I’m keen on you” is ____________.
a) assonance b) consonance c) rhyme d) hyperbole
6. ____________ appeals to the mind or sense, not the ear.
a) Line b) Irony c) Rhyme d) Alliteration

7. The main difference between metaphor and simile is the use of

‘___________’.
a) feelings b) vowels c) adjectives d) like

8. It is not a legal document, or in other words it is ____________.

a) inlegal b) imlegal c) illegal d) unlegal

9. The difference between reality and appearance creates

___________ in poems.
a) oxymoron b) hyperbole c) metaphor d) irony

10. “____________” is an alliterative line.

a) You were laughing, and I, hearing
b) Lots of love for the last lover of my heart
c) You are the last ruin in the vast land of love
d) Your eyes are the sun to my heart
6. ____________ appeals to the mind or sense, not the ear.
a) Line b) Irony c) Rhyme d) Alliteration

7. The main difference between metaphor and simile is the use of

‘___________’.
a) feelings b) vowels c) adjectives d) like

8. It is not a legal document, or in other words it is ____________.

a) inlegal b) imlegal c) illegal d) unlegal

9. The difference between reality and appearance creates

___________ in poems.
a) oxymoron b) hyperbole c) metaphor d) irony

10. “____________” is an alliterative line.

a) You were laughing, and I, hearing
b) Lots of love for the last lover of my heart
c) You are the last ruin in the vast land of love
d) Your eyes are the sun to my heart