Explain poetic devices used in the poem “A Photograph”

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Lucifer · Answer 1 · 2021-01-25T21:38:46+05:30

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

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”.
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”.
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.
Oxymoron: It is the combination of two words that seem to be the opposite of each other. e.g. “laboured ease”.