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What are the figure of speech in the poem The Ant and The Cricket?

What are the figure of speech in the poem The Ant and The Cricket?
AesopCBSE 8thThe Ant and the Cricket

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      Following are the figures of speech used in the poem The Ant and the Cricket:

      1. Personification: When humans characteristics are given to animals or non-living things, it is called personification. The ant and the cricket are personified as humans as they are talking and thinking like humans.
      2. Metaphor: It is the comparison of two things. In the last line “Some crickets have four legs, and some have two“, the poet compares lazy and careless people with the cricket.

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