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

‘But now they only laugh with their teeth,
While their ice-block-cold eyes… ’

(a) Who are ‘they’?

(b) Explain: ice-block-cold eyes

(c) Identify the figure of speech used here.

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(a) ‘They’ refer to modem people.

(b) Ice-block cold eyes’ means eyes lacking a feeling of warmth or endearing feelings like love, sympathy and empathy.

(c) ‘Ice block cold eyes’ has been used as a metaphor. It implies that the man who laughs with his ice cold block eyes has no real emotions. He looks through people.

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