CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

CLASS 10

FIRE AND ICE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Some say the world will ____ Name the poetic device
A
Repetition
B
Simile
C
Alliteration
D
Refrain
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Alliteration-Alliteration is repetition of the same sound used at the beginning of the nearly placed words. Example: The sound of ‘s’ in some say, ‘f’ in ‘’Favour fire”, and ‘w’ in ‘’world will”.

Detailed explanation-2: -Imagery: Imagery is used to make readers perceive things involving their five senses. For example, “Some say the world will end in fire” and “To say that for destruction ice, is also great”.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect. This paragraph is an example of alliteration.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sometimes called initial rhyme or head rhyme, alliteration is one poetic device that’s unmissable in our everyday world. Poets, advertisers and headline writers all regularly take this approach of repeating initial letter sounds to grab people’s attention. In poetry, it also injects focus, harmony, and rhythm.

Detailed explanation-5: -Poems are created out of poetic devices composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem’s meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.

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