syneodoche

Metapphor

Simile

Point out the alliteration the following passages.

When the white feet of the baby beat across the grass. The

little white feet nod like white flowers

in a wind, They poise and run like puffs of wind

that pass, over water where the weeds are thinned.

(D.H. Lawrence: Baby Running Barefoot)

What is 'alliteration'? Explain.

Describe the metrical pattern in the following lines from Thomas Hardy's poem The Darkling Thrush.

I leaned upon a coppice gate

When frost was spectre-gray, And

Winter's dregs made desolate The

weakening eye of day.

Make sentences bringing out the difference in meaning in these pairs of words.

i. fare and fair

ii. tyre and tire

iii. grease and Greece

iv. gait and gate

v. hew and hue

a. What is 'rhythm'? Explain.

Make two phrasal verbs from each of these verbs by adding adverb or/and a preposition, and use them in meaningful sentences:

i. get

ii. bring

iii.show

iv. put

v. round

What meaning do the italicized words convey. Each word has a generally used meaning and in what shade of meaning it is used here. Explain

i. You are acquitted of laziness.

ii. He was an assassin of all good virtues.

iii. It would be a crime to send the child out in the cold.

iv. The food was condemned as unfit for humans.

v. She was a victim of the mother-in-law's tyranny.

Fill in the blanks in the following sentences with words from the list below

lame           nestled                    Tell

beast      experiments

wreathed             hot

icy hand           shadow

buried            swallowed

i. I ____________________________________________ close to her.

11. The ________________________________________________ money. in a man may wake up, if he too much

111. His face was ____________________________________________ in smiles.

iv. 'My autobiography is really a story of my________________________________________(M.K. Gandhi: an Autobiography)

V. Youth is nimble, Age is is ____________________________________________Leveller') Youth and blood. (Shirley: 'Death the

vi. Death lays his ____________________________________________________ Leveller') ...on kings. (Shirley: 'Death and

vii. Napoleon, the pig, was ______________________________________________________ farmyard. ...by the other animals in the

viii. Life is but a walking ________________________________________________ (Shakespeare: Macbeth)

ix. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone  ________________________________________________________on Solitude') where I lie. (A. pope: Ode

X. The hungry river. ____________________________________________________ Living or Dead')   down everything. (Tagore:

Define functional distribution and distinguish it from personal distribution.

What is backward bending supply curve? Explain with an example.

How the various tools of government intervention are applied while determining the price?

Write a short note on the claimed superiority of indifference curves analysis over utility analysis.

What is full-cost pricing principle? Does it lead to a higher than optimum production?

What are the various sources of profits? Do you think that all profits can be explained in terms of the monopoly power exercised by the producer?

Distinguish between interest and profit. Is it not correct to say that both are earned by the capitalists for the capital they invest in the production process?

Why should equilibrium between marginal cost and marginal revenue be a necessary condition for equilibrium of a firm?

What are the characteristics that have to be considered while identifying a Market structure?

How is the Long run Average cost curve derived from Short run Average cost curves? Use suitable diagrams