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Explain poetic devices used in the poem “A Photograph”

Explain poetic devices used in the poem “A Photograph”
A PhotographBritish PoetryCBSE 11thShirley Toulson

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    2. Lucifer
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      better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

      Following literary devices/figures of speech have been used in the poem A Photograph:

      1. Alliteration: It is the use of the same sound at the beginning of words that are close together. e.g. “my mother’s hands”, “stood still to smile”, “terribly transient feet”, “silence silences”.
      2. Transferred Epithet: It is a literary device in which an adjective is usually used to describe one thing is transferred to another. e.g. “washed their terribly transient feet”.
      3. Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things and animals. e.g. “The cardboard shows me how it was”. Here the cardboard is acting like humans.
      4. Oxymoron: It is the combination of two words that seem to be the opposite of each other. e.g. “laboured ease”.
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    3. sanjay jain

      Dear Mr. Lucifer,

      You have explained the literary devices used in the poem- A Photograph.

      Could you please explain which epithet has been transferred from its original noun to another related noun. Also please point out out which these two nouns are.

       

      Regards

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