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1. Higher Secondary Course
ENGLISH
CLASS – XII (Poems)

ANY WOMAN- Katharine Tynan
Alliteration
(Repeated
consonant sounds
at the beginning of
words placed near
each other, usually
on the same line.)
Metaphor
(A direct comparison between two
unlike things, stating that one is
the other, or does the action of
the other.)
Anaphora
(The repetition of a word or phrase at
the beginning of successive clauses)
Enjambment
(in poetry from one line to
another without terminating
punctuation mark)
Inversion
(normal order of words-
reversed)

 Light of
love alive

 The twist
that holds
together

 pillars of the house,
 keystone of the arch,
 fire upon the hearth,
 light of the good sun,
 heat that warms the earth,
 light of love,
 twist that holds together,
 sacred ring,
 knot of love,
 wall against all danger,
 wind and snow



I am the fire upon the hearth,
I am the light of the good sun,
I am the heat that warms the earth,
Which else were colder than a stone.

Take me away, and roof and wall
Would fall to ruin me utterly.

The keystone of the arch
Imagery

“Warp and woof”
(imagery for weaving)



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2. MENDING WALL- Robert Frost
Simile

(A direct
comparis
on of two
unlike
things
using
‘like’ or
‘as’.)
Metaphor

(A direct
comparison
between
two unlike
things,
stating that
one is the
other, or
does the
action of
the other.)
Personification

(A thing, an idea
or an animal is
given human
attributes.)
Alliteration

(Repeated
consonant
sounds at the
beginning of
words placed
near each
other, usually
on the same
line)
Assonance

(Repeated
vowel
sounds in
words
placed near
each other,
on the same
line.)
Consonance

(Repeated
consonant
sounds at the
ending of
words placed
near each
other, usually
on the same
lines.)
Enjambment

(in poetry
from one line
to another
without
punctuation
mark)
Paradox

(seemingl
y self-
contradict
ory phrase
or concept
that
illuminate
s a truth)
Anaphora

(The
repetition
of a word
or phrase
at the
beginning
of
successive
clauses)
Parallelism

(two or more
words or
phrases in
sentences that
are the same
grammatically
,as well as in
meaning. )
Allusion

(superna
tural)
In each
hand,
like an
old-
stone
savage
armed.
And some
are loaves
and some
so nearly
balls
Something
there is that
doesn't love a
wall,
What I was
walling in or
walling out
To please
the yelping
dogs. The
gaps I
mean,
No one
has seen
them
made or
heard
them
made,
And set the
wall
between us
once again.
And he likes
having
thought of it
so well
He says
again, 'Good
fences make
good
neighbours.'
'Good
fences
make
good
neighbou
rs.
And spills
the upper
boulders in
the sun,
And
makes
gaps even
two can
pass
abreast.
To each the
boulders
that have
fallen to
each.
….." I
could
say
"Elves"
to him,

STAMMER- Satchidanandan

Simile Satire Irony Paradox
just as lameness is the
silence

Stammer becomes their
mother tongue;
just as it is with us now.
When a whole people stammer
Stammer becomes their mother tongue

Stammer becomes their mother tongue;
just as it is with us now.
he utters from his prayers to his
commands
stammers, like poetry.
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3. RICE -Chemmanam Chacko [Translated by Prof. K. Ayyappa Paniker]

Satire Apostrophe Alliteration
Only fools turn to rice-farming for gain.

The government gives rice

Chief Minister's off like an arrow to the Centre

O train, will you run a little faster—

(Apostrophe: An address to a dead or absent
person, or personification as if he or she were
present)


without smiling the smile slowly forming on his lips,

THIS IS GOING TO HURT JUST A LITTLE BIT- Ogden Nash
Simile Metaphor Pun Hyperbole Irony Personification Apostrophe
And your mouth is like a
section of road
that is being worked on.
dentist may be a bear hope hopen


(Pun is a
play of
words with
more than
one
meaning or
words that
sound
alike.)
 And your mouth is like
a section of road that is
being worked on.
 serious alterations in
your life line or love
line
 jaw digging into your
chest.
 coats your mouth from
cellar to roof
 crowbar in one hand
 being polished, But you
have reason to believe
they are being
demolished.
 there isn't a nerve in
your head that you
aren't being irked on.
That Man has
to go
continually to
the dentist to
keep
his teeth in
good condition
when the chief
reason he
wants his
teeth in good
condition is so
that he won't
have to go to
the dentist.
O Fate, is I think
the most vicious
circle that thou
ever sentest,
O Fate, is I think
the most vicious
circle that thou
ever sentest,

Prepared by :
SUNIL J, HSST ENGLISH, GHSS ANAVOOR (01027), THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
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