TNPSC English Study Material - Figure of Speech and their explanation

Figure of speech observed from the below poems

Alliteration ,Allusion, Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Oxymoron, Onomatopoeia, Anaphora, Ellipsis, Rhyme Scheme, Rhyming Words, Repetition ,Apostrophe

Figure of Speech and their explanation

The Questions will be comes from below poems.

A Psalm of Life - Women’s Rights - The Nation United - English words –Snake – The Man He Killed - Off to outer space tomorrow morning - Sonnet No.116 - The Solitary Reaper - Be the Best - O Captain My Captain - Laugh and Be Merry – Earth - Don’t quit - The Apology - Be Glad your Nose is on our face - A sonnet for my Incomparable Mother - The Flying Wonder - To a Millionaire - The Piano – Manliness - Going for water - The cry of the Children - Migrant Bird - Shilpi.

You can get the poems from below link

All the poems as per syllabus

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more importance to General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.

TNPSC English Study Material- Figure of Speech "Simile and Metaphor"

Figure of Speech

Simile:

Simile is a comparison made between two objects of different kinds which have some resemblance, using by a word of comparison like – “like”, “so”, “As”, “as…so”.

Example From Poem(syllabus):

Like a king in exile

And lifted his head, dreamily, as one who has drunken.

As humble plants by country hedgerows growing.

Flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air

How glad I was he had come like a quest in quiet, to drink at my water -trough

In the above sentences, the words “Like”, “as”, are comparing two different kinds of objects. So it is called Simile.

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Metaphor

Metaphor is called as Condensed or implied Simile. It compares two things which are not actually the same, but for the sake of comparison or symbolism.

In Simple,  it is a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that both are similar

Example:

"Laugh till the game is played"

If you check the above example, life is compared to a game here so it is called Metaphor

"Life is like a game"

If you check the above example, here we are saying life is like a game so it is Simile. If we say life is a game then it is Metaphore.

Example for Metaphore:

1. A thread the length of a span
2. The strong red wine of this mirth
3. Deep blue cup of the sky.

TNPSC English Study Material- Figure of Speech " Personification"

Figure of Speech

Personification:

It attributes life to inanimate objects or abstract qualities. Which means it assign the qualities of a person to something which is not human or something which is not alive.

Tips: Usually the personification words begin with a Capital Letter.

Example:

“How beautiful you are, Earth and how sublime!

How perfect your obedience to the light and how

Noble is your submission the sun.”

In this poem, Earth is personified here.

More Examples from syllabus:

1. O winged seeds! You crossed the furrowed seas
2. The gospel of an endless blossoming

TNPSC English Study Material- Figure of Speech "Alliteration"

Figure of Speech

Alliteration :

Alliteration is the repetition of the initial consonant sound in several words in the line.

Example- So we must lough and drink from the deep blue of the sky

     Join the Jubilant song of the great stars sweeping by

    And the grave is not its goal

    For the soul is dead that slumbers

    Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

    So let us, Unobtrusive and unnoticed

If you check in above sentence, the highlighted letters are repeated in a line . so it is called Alliteration.

TNPSC English Study Material- Figure of Speech " Oxymoron and Onomatopoeia"

Figure of Speech

Oxymoron:

Oxymoron are figures of speech in which two opposing terms are combined in order to get effect .

Example

It is used to make the person stop and think, whether it’s to laugh or to ponder.

“Clearly confused”

If you check the above words, clearly and confused have completely opposite meanings, but bringing together to produce a verbally puzzling, yet engaging effect ( to make readers little confuse).     

        

More Example from Syllabus:

Not Enjoyment, and not sorrow

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Onomatopoeia,

It is a word, which imitates the natural sounds. It creates sound effect to the words and gives more expressive and interesting to the reader who reads the word

Example:

"The stone fell into the river with a splash"

In the above example “ the stone fell into the river with a splash”. the word splash gives reader more expression and sound effect ,rather than just reading “ the stone fell into the river”.

More example:

Buzz, Meow, bark etc.

TNPSC English Study Material- Figure of Speech " Anaphora and Ellipsis"

Figure of Speech

Anaphora,      

    

It is a word or group of words which is repeated at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or sentences.

Example From Syllabus:

Footprints on the sands of time

Footprints that perhaps another

You bleached our souls soiled with impurities

You bathed our hearts amid tempestuous seas

And climb again the broken bank of my wall-face

And as he put his head into that dreadful hole.

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 Ellipsis,

Ellipsis is a series of dots which indicates an intentional omission of words or series of words without changing the meaning.

Example:

1. After college I went to his house … and then came home
2. He opened the door . . . and saw . . . a cake
3. I never thought…

TNPSC English Study Material- Figure of Speech" Rhyme Scheme, Repetition, Apostrophe"

Figure of Speech

Rhyme Scheme,

Specific pattern used in a poem that determines which lines rhyme at the end of the poem.

Example:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

The rhyme scheme of the poem is determined in the last word of each line, Star and Are in first stanza and High and Sky in second stanza.  

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Repetition

It is word or phrases which is repeated in a sentence or a poetical line.

Example:

1. Let the dead past bury its dead
2. Act, act in the living present
3. Pining for a new agony, a new birth.

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Apostrophe.

When a character speaks to an object or an idea, or someone which doesn’t exist or absent or dead in literary work to produce dramatic effect  and to show importance to it.

Example:

1. Oh, Jasmine, how sweet you smell and how bright you look
2. Bike, please get me to work today.

TNPSC English Study Material - Part C Poets and their periods

TNPSC English Study Material

TNPSC English Syllabus-  TO WHICH PERIOD THE POETS BELONG

18.William Shakespeare - Walt Whitman - William Wordsworth - H.W. Longfellow ,Annie Louisa Walker - D.H. Lawrence

William Shakespeare        -    April 26 1564 - April 23 1616 

Walt Whitman                   -    May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

William Wordworth:       -   April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850 

H.W Longfellow:             -   Feb 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882

Annie Louisa walker       -    June 26 1836 - July 7 1907

D.H. Lawrence:               -    Sep 11 1885 -March 2, 1930, 

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more concentration on General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.

TNPSC English Study Material - Part C Authors and their works

TNPSC English Study Material

TNPSC English Syllabus

Various works of the following Authors –

Rabindranath Tagore – Shakespeare - William Wordsworth - H.W.Longfellow – Anne Louisa Walker - Oscar Wilde - Pearl S. Buck

1.Rabindranath Tagore:

1. Gitanjali
2. Home and the world
3. Boyhood days
4. Gora     
5. A Grain of Sand: Chokher Bali
6. My Life in my words

2.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

1. Psalm of life
2. Voices of the night
3. Ballads
4. Evangeline
5. Hiawatha
6. The courtship of miles Standish
7. Tales of a wayside Inn

3. Annie Louisa Walker

1. Leaves from the Backwoods
2. Canadian heroine
3. Hollywood
4. Plays for children
5. Against her will
6. Lady’s holm 

4.William Shakespeare

 To get  the complete works of the Shakespeare click the link http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

below are few works of William Shakespeare

1. All's Well That Ends Well
2. Antony and Cleopatra
3. The Sonnets
4. As You Like It
5. Coriolanus
6. A Lover's Complaint
7. The Comedy of Errors
8. Hamlet
9. The Rape of Lucrece
10. Cymbeline
11. Julius Caesar
12. Venus and Adonis
13. Love's Labours Lost
14. King Lear
15. Funeral Elegy by W.S.
16. Measure for Measure
17. Macbeth
18. The Merchant of Venice
19. King John
20. Romeo and Juliet
21. A Midsummer Night's Dream
22. Timon of Athens 

5.Oscar Wilde

1. Importance of being Earnest
2. The picture of Dorian Gray
3. Happy prince and the tales
4. Selfish Giant
5. The Nightingale and the Rose
6. The Devoted friend
7. The Remarkable rocket
8. A House of Pomegranates
9. The Decay of lying

6.Pearl S Buck 

1. The Good Earth
2. East wind West Wind
3. The good Earth
4. Sons
5. A house Divided
6. The Mother
7. China Sky

TNPSC English Study Material -Comprehension Questions from the following description of Places

TNPSC English Study Material- Questions from description of places.

Syllabus-Comprehension Questions from the following description of Places

Ahtushi Deshpande’s ‘To the land of snow’ - Manohar Devadoss – Yaanai Malai - Brihadeesvarar Temple

Candidate Must read above mentioned workings carefully in TNPSC Exam there will be more chance of getting more than 3 questions. Candidate should study more carefully about the place, person, theme, motive about the  lesson and also about the Author.

Below is the link which contains all the Working as per the syllabus. 

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TNPSC English Study Material- Questions from Description of Places

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more concentration on General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.

TNPSC English Study Material-Dr Karl Paulnack

TNPSC English Study Material - Music-the Hope Raiser

Syllabus : Dr.Karl Paulnack

Music-The Hope Raiser

It is one of the important lesson for TNPSC Exam, Candidate should study more carefully about the place, person, theme, motive about the  lesson and also about the Author.

Below is the link which contains the lesson of Music-The Hope Raiser

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TNPSC English Study Material-Dr Karl Paulnack's Music the Hope Raiser

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more concentration on General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.

TNPSC English Study Material- Comprehensive Questions from Motivational Essays

TNPSC English Study Material-Questions from Motivational Essays

Syllabus - Comprehension Questions from the following Motivational Essays:

Gopala Krishna Gokhale’s Speech on 25th July in Mumbai in response to The address presented to him by students- Dale Carnegie’s ‘The Road to success- Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam’s ‘Vision for the Nation’(from ‘India2020’)- Ruskin Bond’s ‘Our Local Team’ - Hope Spencer’s ‘Keep your spirits high’ - Deepa Agarwal’s ‘After the storm’ - Brian patten’s ‘You can’t be that no you can’t be that’

Candidate Must read  motivational essay mentioned above thoroughly, in TNPSC Exam there will be more chance of getting more than 6 questions

Below is the link which contains all the Motivational Essays and poems as per the syllabus 

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TNPSC English Study Material- Questions from Motivational Essays

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more concentration on General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.

TNPSC English Study Material-Question from Oscar Wilde's writings.

TNPSC English Study Material- About Model Millionaire and The Selfish Giant.

Syllabus-Questions from Oscar Wilde’s

The Model Millionaire - The Selfish Giant

Candidate Must read  the working of Oscar Wilde's Model Millionaire and Selfish Giant mentioned above thoroughly, in Exam there will be more chance of getting more than 4 questions

Below is the link which contains working of Oscar Wilde's Model Millionaire and Selfish Giant

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TNPSC English Study Material- Questions from Oscar Wilde's play

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more concentration on General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.

TNPSC English Study Material- Question on Shakespeare's Play

TNPSC English Study Material- Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Sonnet 116

Syllabus: Questions on Shakespeare’s

Merchant of Venice (Act IV Court Scene) - Julius Caesar (Act III Scene 2) -Sonnet 116

Candidate Must read all the writing of Shakespeare mentioned above thoroughly, in Exam there will be more chance of getting more than 7 question from above 3 writings of Shakespeare.

Below is the link which contains all the writings of Shakespeare as per the syllabus 

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TNPSC English study Material- Question on Shakespeare's Play

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more concentration on General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.

TNPSC English Study Material- Important Lines from Poems

TNPSC English Study Material- Important Lines


Syllabus: Important lines from Poems.

Where the mind is without fear - The Solitary Reaper - Going for water - A Psalm of Life - Be the Best - Sonnet No.116.

Candidate Must read all the poems mentioned above thoroughly, because you will be getting 3 or more questions in TNPSC Exams. Candidate should not miss even single line. 

Below is the link which contains all the poem as per the syllabus 

TNPSC English Study Material-Important lines from Poems

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more concentration on General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.

TNPSC English Study Material- Apreciation Questions from Poetry

TNPSC English Study Material- Appreciation Questions

The Questions will be comes from below poems.

A Psalm of Life - Women’s Rights - The Nation United - English words –Snake – The Man He Killed - Off to outer space tomorrow morning - Sonnet No.116 - The Solitary Reaper - Be the Best - O Captain My Captain - Laugh and Be Merry – Earth - Don’t quit - The Apology - Be Glad your Nose is on our face - A sonnet for my Incomparable Mother - The Flying Wonder - To a Millionaire - The Piano – Manliness - Going for water - The cry of the Children - Migrant Bird - Shilpi.

Candidate should understand Poem thoroughly. The questions in TNPSC Exam will test your understanding about the Poems.

NOTE: ALL POEMS TAKEN FROM TAMILNADU TEXT BOOK CORPORATION SITE.

 TNPSC English Study Material-Apreciation Questions from Poetry.PDF

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more importance to General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.

TNPSC English Study Material- Match the poems with Poets

TNPSC English Study Material

Syllabus Match the Poems with the Poets

A psalm of Life - Be the Best - The cry of the children - The Piano –Manliness Going for water – Earth -The Apology - Be Glad your Nose is on your face - The Flying Wonder -Is Life But a Dream - Be the Best - O captain My Captain - Snake - Punishment in Kindergarten -Where the Mind is Without fear - The Man He Killed - Nine Gold Medals

Poem	Author
A psalm of Life	H W Longfellow
Be the Best	Douglas Malloch
The cry of the children	Elizabeth Barret Browning
The Piano	D.H Lawrence
Manliness	Rudyard Kipling
Going for water	Robert Frost
Earth	Kalil Gibran
The Apology	Ralp Raldo Emerson
Be Glad your Nose is on your face	Jack Prelutsky
The Flying Wonder	Stephen Vincent Benet
Is Life But a Dream	Lewis Carroll
O captain My Captain	Walt Whitman
Snake	D.H Lawrence
Punishment in Kindergarten	Kamala das
Where the Mind is Without fear	Rabindranath Tagore
The Man He Killed	Thomas Hardy
Nine Gold Medals	David Roth

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more concentration on General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.

TNPSC English Study Material- Which Nationality the Poet Belongs to?

TNPSC English Study Material- Poet and Their Nationality

Syllabus- Which Nationality the Poet belongs to ?

Robert Frost - Archibald Lampman - D.H. Lawrence - Rudyard Kipling Kamala Das - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Famida Y. Basheer - Thomas Hardy - Khalil Gibran - Edgar A. Guest - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Jack Prelutsky - F. Joanna - Stephen Vincent Benet - William Shakespeare -William Wordsworth - H.W. Long Fellow - Annie Louisa walker -

Walt Whitman - V.K. Gokak

S.No	Authors	Nationality
1	Archibald Lampman	Canada
2	Elizabeth barret browning	England
3	Rudyard Kipling	England
4	D.H Lawrence	England
5	Thomas Hardy	England
6	Longfellow	England
7	Annie Louisa Walker	England
8	Wordsworth	England
9	Shakesphere	England
10	Walt Whitman	American
11	Robert Frost	American
12	Ralp Waldo Emerson	American
13	Jack Prelutsky	American
14	F.Joanna	American
15	Edgar.A.Guest	British born American poet
16	Stephen Vincent Benet	American
17	Khalil Gibran	Lebanon
18	Kamala Das	India
19	V.K Gokak	India

Note: All the notes are taken from Tamil Nadu Samacheer Kalvi Books.

Candidate should give more concentration on General English, because we never knows what they will ask what questions in General Knowledge. It will be more difficult to answer all the Questions in General English but in General English they will ask Questions only from 6th std to 12th Standard Samacheer Kalvi as per syllabus.

So it is very important to to get more than 90 Questions correct in General English. If we take 90 Correct answer then there is more to chance to clear the Exam.

we are hear to make you exam preparation easy by giving all the relevant English Study material to clear the TNPSC Exam.