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.

metonymy

 Write polite forms for the following.

i. How much did these socks cost you.

ii. A has to put some additional chairs in his classroom. He wants some from B's room

iii. A is visiting B. B offers him some tea (makes an offer): Have some tea.

iv. A has a headache and B makes an offer of help (makes an offer): I will give you an aspirin.

v. A's bicycle tyres have very little air. He wants to use B's Bicycle pump (asks for permission).

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:

Give the negative and question forms of the following sentences.

a. You called me.

b. I can borrow his scooter.

c. He will agree.

d. You had a good breakfast.

e. You used to be frightened of him.