Question

50. What Oxymoron literary device
was used in the poem? *
O Laboured ease
O Both wry
O Terribly transient
O Through their​

Answer 1

${ \huge{\frak{ \green{Answer}}}}$

• Laboured ease.

Answer 2

Oxymoron literary device was used in the poem 'The photograph' is - Laboured ease.

• An oxymoron is a figure of speech that uses two seemingly opposite or contradictory ideas to create a rhetorical or poetic effect to bring out a deeper truth.
• The two ideas will come as two separate words placed side by side.
• The word labored ease has contradictory meanings but is used in such a way to show the poet and her mother's acceptance of their gloomy lives and have learned to live with it.
• In Terribly transient - the figure of speech is Alliteration as the two words start with the same letter T.
• Both words have the repeated sound of the first consonant.
• The figure of speech in 'Through their ' is also alliteration.

Hence, The Oxymoron Is - Laboured Ease.

#spj3