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(B) What is the boy new, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over-there it is in the water! (The Ball Poem)
a) To whom is the question at the beginning of the stanza addressed?
i) to the boy
ii) to the boy's friends
iii) to the passers-by
iv) to the reader
b) What is the ball with which the little boy was playing symbolic of? c) Why does the poet repeat the word 'merrily a few times in the given stanza?
i) He wants to describe the mood of the boy.
ii) He wants to show that the ball slipped from the boy's hands.
iii) He wants to impart a sense of rhythm to the ball's tumbling movement. iv) Everything was merry until the ball fell into the water.
d) Complete the analogy based on your understanding of the given stanza. Loss:
::memily: sadly
Below are given the poetic devices used in the stanza above. Match them with their correct examples.
1. anaphora
(a) Repetition of the word "what"
2. assonance
(b) What is the boy... what, what
5. repetition
(c) Repeated use of vowel 70 ^ +
4. imagery
(d) The ball bouncing down the street
i) 1 - (b) 2 - (c) 3 - (a) 4 - (d)
i) 1 - (d) 2 - (c) 3 - (2) 4 - (b)
) I - (c) 2 - (b) 3 - (a), 4 - (d)
iv) 1 - (b) 2 - (a) 3 - (c), 4 - (d)
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