Following poetic devices have been used in the poem Childhood: Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things and animals. In this poem, childhood is personified. "It went to some forgotten place". Alliteration: It is the the occurrence of the same sound at the bRead more
Following poetic devices have been used in the poem Childhood:
- Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things and animals. In this poem, childhood is personified. “It went to some forgotten place“.
- Alliteration: It is the the occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of closely connected words. e.g. “Hell and Heaven”, “Was that the day!”, “Was it when I found my mind was really mine”, “whichever way”.
- Antithesis: This poetic device pairs opposite or contrasting ideas adjacent to each other. e.g. “Hell and Heaven”.
- Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence to multiple lines. e.g. “Was it the time I realised that adults were not All they seemed to be, They talked of love and preached of love, But did not act so lovingly, Was that the day!“.
- Repetition: It is the repetition of a word or phrase in the poem for poetic effect. e.g. the phrases “When did my childhood go?”, “Was that the day!” have been repeated several times.
Following literary devices/figures of speech have been used in the poem Keeping Quiet: Alliteration: It is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. e.g. "we will count", "sudden strangeness", "stop for one second", "his hurt hands", "clean clothes". Repetition: It is the repetitRead more
Following literary devices/figures of speech have been used in the poem Keeping Quiet:
and we will all keep still.”, “For once on the face of the Earth let’s not speak in any language, let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much.” etc.
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