Directions: Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options. Break, Break, Break, On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me. O, well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play! O, well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still! Break, Break, Break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me. In the first two lines of the poem, the poet uses—
In the first two lines of the poem, the poet uses an apostrophe. An apostrophe is a literary device where the speaker addresses someone absent, dead, or an inanimate object as if it were capable of understanding and responding. In this poem, the poet directly addresses the sea with the words "O Sea!" This direct address to the sea, an inanimate entity, is a classic example of an apostrophe, which…Read More
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