Question

Came back thinner, rather poor.but richer by a cherry tree at my door figure of speech there sentence

Answer 1

Answer:

oxymoron

richer and poor two opposite word

Answer 2

The figure of speech in the sentence 'Came back thinner, rather poor, but richer by a cherry tree at my door' is an oxymoron.

• The lines are from the poem 'Cherry Tree' by Dnyanada Asolkar.
• A figure of speech also called a literary device is a word or phrase that is an intentional deviation from ordinary language. It produces a rhetorical effect.
• In the given sentence the words 'poor' and 'richer' are used together.
• When two words with opposite meanings are used together, the figure of speech is called an oxymoron.