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Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow.

“Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted. Tell him to be a fool every so often”

(i) Why does the poet suggest that time can be wasted?

(ii) Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

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(i) Unless one wastes one’s time, one may not commit mistakes and learn from them. Besides learning not to repeat those mistakes would naturally make him wiser.

(ii) Simile

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