Elements Of Poetry - English (Compulsory) For Class XI - Text Book Exercise

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(Prepared By Sir Mukhtiar Ahmed RTS Ghotki)
Exercise 1:
Answer the following questions. Write down your answers in your notebook, and share it with your class fellows once you have completed.
Q.1: What is meant by rhyme in poetry?
Ans: The same sound at the end of poetic lines is meant rhyme in poetry.

Q.2: What is meter in poetry?
Ans: Meter functions as a means of imposing a specific number of syllables in a line of poetry. It consists of the number of syllables and the pattern of emphasis on those syllables.
Example: Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; -- Keats

Q.3: What are different kinds of stanza?
Ans: Stanza is the division of a poem in a certain number of lines having the same meter,rhyme,and a unifying idea or image. Stanza is identified with a number of lines it contains. Thus, Stanza is of the following kinds.

1. A couplet (two lines stanza)
2. A Tercet (three lines stanza)
3. Quatrain (four lines stanza)
4. Quaintain (five lines stanza)
5. Sestet (six lines stanza)
6. Octave (eight lines stanza)

Q.4: What is a sonnet?
Ans: The word 'sonnet' means little song. A sonnet is a 14-line lyrical poem divided into two stanzas: an octave and a sestet. The sonnet's three main types are the Italian, the English and the Spenserian.

Q.5: What is function of the poetic devices?
Ans.The main function of the poetic devices is to enhance the meaning or mood of the poem.

Exercise 2:
Work in pairs. See the picture below and read the poem of William Wordsworth very carefully and answer the questions. Each pair should write down their answers in their notebooks. After you have completed this exercise, exchange your work with other pairs.
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

Q.1: What type of poem is it? Explain and justify your answer.
Ans: This is sonnet, a type of short poem in which English literature is extremely rich. This poem name is "The Sonnet Composed Upon the Westminster Bridge" is a nature's poem, which was written by William Wordsworth. This poem reveals the morning nature of London. Wordsworth was the poet of nature. He depicts the natural beauty of the commercial city early in th emorning, when there is every one in deep sleep. He stands on the bridge above the river Thames. From the bridge, he emphasizes the pure nature free from pollution of smoke from ships, mills and other buildings.

Q.2: How many stanzas are there and what are they called?
Ans: There are two stanzas in the poem. They are called Octave (first eight lines) and Sestet (second six lines). Because the poem is a sonnet.

Q.3: Write down the rhyming scheme of the poem?
Ans.The first eight lines rhyming scheme is :ABBA, ACCA. And the next six lines rhyming scheme is: ABABAB.

OR

William Wordsworth uses a difficult rhyme scheme - abbaabbacdcdcd - which confines him only four rhymes in fourteen lines.

Exercise 3:
Work individually, read the elements of poetry and find out which of the following statements are correct and incorrect. For correct statements put a tick (✓) and for in correct ones, put a cross (X). After completing, compare your answers with your partner.

No.	Statement	Correct / Incorrect
1.	Two lines which rhyme at the end are called a couplet.	(Correct✓)
2.	There is no convenient way of setting out a pattern of rhymes.	(Incorrect X)
3.	Imagery is the use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas.	(Incorrect X)
4.	Usually a sonnet is comprised of 14 lines having certain rhyming scheme.	(Correct ✓)
5.	Ballad is expressed for sorrow, grief or death.	(Incorrect X)
6.	A metaphor states explicitly that one thing is like another.	(Correct ✓)

Exercise 4:
Work in pairs. Read the following examples of various figures of speech and write the name of corresponding figures of speech against each. Once you have completed, share it with your partner.

No.	Examples	Figures of Speech
1.	To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.	Personification
2.	They speak like saints and act like devils.	Simile
3.	How could he be a king, a soldier and a peon?	Anticlimax
4.	How high, his highness holds his haughty head.	Alliteration
5.	What avail me, all my Kingdoms?	Hyperbole
6.	Hasten slowly.	Oxymoron
7.	Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.	Antithesis
8.	Life is a dream.	Metaphor
9.	She was as proud as a peacock.	Simile
10.	More haste, less speed.	Oxymoron

Exercise 5:
Work individually. Read the following sentences and convert them as directed in the brackets against each. You can add new words in these sentences while converting these. Share your work with your class fellows once you have completed.
1) He is as sober as a judge.(Metaphor)
(Figure of speech in above sentence is Simile)
Ans: He is a sober judge in his life.

2) She was a tower of strength in their trouble.(Simile)
(Figure of speech in above sentence is Metaphor)
Ans: She was as strong as a tower of strength in their trouble.

3) Necessity knows no law. (Oxymoron)
(Figure of speech in above sentence is Personification)
Ans: Extra necessity knows no law.

4) He is the wisest fool of them all.(Personification)
(Figure of speech in above sentence is Oxymoron)
Ans: He is the foolish of them all.

5) The professor's ideas are as old as the hills.(irony)
(Figure of speech of above sentence is Hyperbole)
Ans: The professor's ideas are old to explain lecture.

6) The fire station burned down last night. (Hyperbole)
(Figure of speech of above sentence is Irony)
Ans: The fire station may burned down last night.

Exercise 6:
Most of the figures of speech are very common in ou rdaily use. Work in pairs and collect as many other common examples of above mentioned figures of speech in Exercise 4. Once you have done, display them in front of the class by writing on the charts.
Figure Of Speech With Examples:
1. Personification:
Ans: Examples:

• The sun smiles brightly.
• The stars wink in the sky at night.

2. Simile:
Ans: Example:

• As sweet as honey
• As busy as bee

3. Anticlimax:
Ans: Example

• She is a great writer, a mother and a good humorist.
• He lost his friends, his car and his mobile.

4. Alliteration:
Ans: Example:

• Live long life like a lion.
• Ellen eats everything except eggs.

5. Hyperbole:
Ans: Example:

• He was so mad that he could chew his nails.
• The pen is mightier than the sword.

6. Oxymoron:
Ans: Example:

• Original copy.
• Old news

7. Antithesis:
Ans: Example:

• Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
• To err is human; to forgive divine.

8. Metaphor:
Ans: Example:

• The snow is a white blanket.
• The world is a stage and all men and women are player..

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