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06/02/2021 4:59 pm
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Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress eyebrow.
Paraphrase: The third stage is that of a lover. He sighs like a furnace and shgs a sad song dedicated to his lover.
(a) What is the third stage of life?
(b) What is the poetic device used in the second line?
(c) What does the lover do for his mistress?
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06/02/2021 5:00 pm
(a) The third stage of man’s life is that of a lover.
(b) ‘Simile’ is used as a poetic device in the second line.
(c) The lover is always sighing and longing for his beloved. He writes a sad ballad describing the eyebrow of his mistress.