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In the following text from the Shakespearean play, Hamlet, the central character,
Hamlet is describing a portrait of his late father :

“See what a grade was seated on this brow,

Hyperion’s curls, the front of Jove himself,

An eye like Mars’ to threaten and command ...”
What is the literary technique used by Shakespeare in the above text? What is its function ?
Who used the term ‘Discourse’ for the first time, why ?

In the following lines from the poem, “Which language should I Speak ?” by Arun Kamble,
what meaning does the line ‘household of tradition heaped on his back' convey ? Can you spot

a metaphor here ?
Chewing trotters in the badlands
My grandpa
The permanent resident of my body,
The household of tradition heaped on his back,
Hollers at me,
“You whore-son, talk like we do,
Talk, I tell you!”
Look at the verbs in the following passage from Bond's story.

When Madam saw the leopard on her steps, she dropped her handbag and opened her
mouth to scream.

What comes after the verbs saw, dropped and opened? What questions do they answer ?
What are these verbs technically called ?

10 Why does Maxine Hong Kingston's mother tell her the story about the ‘No Name Woman’ ?

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Read the following lines from Thomas Hardy’s “The Voice” and describe the tone.
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me,
Saying that now you are not as you were
When you had changed from the one who was all to me,

But as at first, when our day was fair.