Question

Identify the stages in man's life from the given description and complete the table:

• A. Simile
• B. Metaphor
• C. Personification
• D. Alliteration

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

\[\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \textbf{Actions} & \textbf{Stage} \\ \hline \text{(i) Full of strange oaths} & \text{The Soldier} \\ \hline \text{(ii) Creeping like a snail} & \text{The Schoolboy} \\ \hline \text{(iii) Sighing like furnace} & \text{The Lover} \\ \hline \text{(iv) Having fair round belly} & \text{The Justice} \\ \hline \end{array}\]

Step 1: Understanding the Seven Ages of Man 
- Shakespeare describes seven stages in life: 
1. The Infant 
2. The Schoolboy 
3. The Lover 
4. The Soldier 
5. The Justice 
6. The Old Man 
7. Second Childishness (Death) 
 

Step 2: Matching Descriptions to Stages 
- Full of strange oaths: Represents The Soldier, who is passionate, quick to anger, and obsessed with honor. 
- Creeping like a snail: Describes The Schoolboy, who unwillingly goes to school. 
- Sighing like furnace: Matches The Lover, who is deeply emotional and obsessed with love. 
- Having fair round belly: Represents The Justice, who is mature, wise, and content in life.

Answer 2

Step 1: Understanding the First Stage (Infancy)
- An infant is helpless, relies on others for survival, and lacks speech and motor control.
- The infant is described as "mewling and puking in the nurse's arms" in the poem.

Step 2: Understanding the Last Stage (Second Childhood)
- The elderly person in the last stage is described as "Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
- This means that in old age, a person loses teeth, vision, and physical abilities, similar to an infant.

Step 3: Drawing Similarities
- Both lack independence and need assistance.
- Both are vulnerable and weak.
- Both struggle with communication and coordination.

Answer 3

Step 1: Understanding the given sentence
- The sentence "All the world's a stage" is comparing the world to a stage where people act out different roles in life.

Step 2: Identifying the figure of speech
- A simile uses "like" or "as" to compare two things, but this sentence does not contain those words.
- A metaphor directly compares two things without using "like" or "as". Since "world" is being compared to a stage, it is a metaphor.
- Personification gives human qualities to non-living things, but that is not happening in this sentence.
- Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds, which is not present here.

Final Answer: The sentence uses a metaphor as it directly compares the world to a stage without using "like" or "as".