2nd year English notes | Archaeological Treasures of Pakistan

Archaeological Treasures of Pakistan Chapter No 16

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Writing Assignment

Visit an archaeological site is like travelling through that period of history. Which period of history represented by one of the archaeological sites mentioned in this essay would you like to visit if you were given a chance to travel through time-and why? Write an essay highlighting your imagined experiences.

Answer:
Being a history lover, first of all, I would like to invent the machine that transports me into the past period of our majestic Mughals. There are several reasons to justify my desire. The first and the foremost attraction for that period is to experience the rich customs, culture, and tradition associated with Mughal dynasty.

Secondly, the pomp and show of the Mughal emperors must be a worthwhile experience. I would like to cherish the moment of the emperors’ appearance in their royal courts. I want to see and experience the royal courts with my own eyes, where all the couturiers dressed lavishly in their appropriate costumes waiting to hear the fair verdict of the emperor against any case.

That’s not all; I would love to roam around in the well-maintained gardens surrounding the palaces of the Mughals with sparkling water fountains adding into the beauty of the lawns. The cool fresh breeze scented with the fragrance of flowers would make me feel relaxed and blissful.
Being a girl, one of my original attractions would be to observe the royal activities of the queens and princesses of the Mughal era. The way they used to beautify themselves with bedazzling jewellery adorned with precious gems and jewels.

I would like to take pleasure in the delicate dance performances by the well-trained performers in the magnificent courts.
When taking a tour out of the palaces, I would love to see the intricate Mughal architecture in the form of buildings, mosques, and tombs as Mughal art and architecture is famous for their design and form.
Peace, justice, and honour that were the essential part of Mughal era would be witnessed by me as these things are not available nowadays.

The time of Mughals was an awesome period in the history of the sub-continent with all their grandeur and splendour and if given a chance I would love to step into the magnificent era of Mughals.

Anticlimax

Name the various figures of speech in the following:

1) The more haste, the less speed.
2) I must be taught my duty, and by you!
3) Plead, Sleep, my cause and make her soft like thee.
4) Charity suffered long and is kind.
5) He makes no friend who never made a foe.
6) He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see?
7) Let not ambition mock their useful toil.
8) To gossip is a fault, to libel, a crime; to slander, a sin.
9) Oh! What a noble mind is here overthrown.
10) Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding.
11) Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour?
12) Fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
13) The Puritan had been rescued by a no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe.
14) The cup that cheers but not inebriates.
15) You are a pretty fellow.
16) Hasten slowly.
17) Hail! Smiling morn.
18) Can two walk together, except they are agreed?
19) Curses are like chickens, they come home to roost.
20) A thousand years are as yesterday when it is past.
21) The prisoner was brought to the dock in irons.
22) We had nothing to do, and we did it very well.
23) Boys will be boys.
24) The cloister oped her pitying gage.
25) Lowliness is young Ambition’s ladder.
26) Language is the art of concealing thought.
27) Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humour?
28) Exult, 0 shores, and ring, 0 bells!
29) He followed the letter but not the spirit of the law.
30) One truth is clear: whatever is, is right.
31) I came, I saw, I conquered.
32) Labour, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.
33) Just for a handful of silver, he left us.
34) They were swifter than eagles: they were stronger than lions.
35) Swiftly flies the feathered death.
36) It is a wise father that knows his child.
37) Brave Macbeth, with his brandished steel, carved out his passage.
38) Sweet Thames! Run softly, till I end my song.
39) There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces and that cure is freedom.
40) Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain.
41) So spake the seraph abdiel faithful found.
Amongthefaithlessfaithful only he.
42) Youth is full of pleasure,
Age is full of care.
43) Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou art is gone and forever.
44) Can Honour’s voice provoke the silent dust,
Or Flattery soothe the dull cold ear of Death?
45) Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust
46) Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous Wears still a precious jewel in its head.
47) The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.
48) 0 mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men
49) Knowledge is proud that it knows so much Wisdom is humble that it knows no more
50) At once they rush’d
Together, like two eagles on one prey Come rushing down from the clouds, One from the east, one from the west.
51) Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow,
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
52) The best way to learn a language is to speak it.
53) Scepter and crown Must tumble down
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade
54) O! Solitude! Where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face?
55) I thought ten thousand swords must have leapt from their scabbards to avenge a look that threatened her with insult.
56) The soldier fights for glory, and a shilling a day.
57) His honour rooted in dishonour stood,
And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
58) They speak like saints and act like devils.
59) He was a learned man among lords and a lord among learned men.

Answer:

1) Antithesis
2) Exclamation
3) Climax
4) Transferred epithet
5) Oxymoron
6) Interrogation
7) Euphemism
8) Hyperbole
9) Exclamation
10) Oxymoron
11) Interrogation
12) Transferred epithet
13) Hyperbole
14) Oxymoron
15) Litotes
16) Apostrophe
17) Hyperbole
18) Irony
19) Hyperbole
20) Euphemism
21) Hyperbole
22) Litotes
23) Synecdoche
24) Oxymoron
25) Anticlimax
26) Interrogation
27) Climax
28) Hyperbole
29) Antithesis
30) Climax
31) Hyperbole
32) Synecdoche
33) Hyperbole
34) Litotes
35) Oxymoron
36) Climax
37) Apostrophe
38) Hyperbole
39) Irony
40) Apostrophe
41) Oxymoron
42) Irony
43) Interrogation
44) Synecdoche
45) Metonymy
46) Oxymoron
47) Anticlimax
48) Hyperbole
49) Synecdoche
50) Hyperbole
51) Climax
52) Litotes
53) Irony
54) Apostrophe
55) Hyperbole
56) Transferred epithet
57) Hyperbole
58) Climax
59) Oxymoron

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