What are the literary devices used in the poem In the Bazaars of Hyderabad?

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Lucifer · Answer 1 · 2020-07-21T20:53:04+05:30

Following literary devices/figures of speech are used in the poem In the Bazaars of Hyderabad:

Metaphor: It is a literary device which is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common. e.g. “to perfume the sleep of the dead”. Here, the poet compares motionless and silence of dead body with sleep.
Simile: It is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using “like” or “as”. e.g. “Frail as a dragon-fly’s wing”
Alliteration: It is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. e.g. “What do you weigh, O ye vendors”, “girdles of gold”, “What do you weave”, “the brow of a bridegroom”