Question

explain The purpose of oxymoron used in the poem a tiger in the zoo
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Answer 1

Explanation:

Personification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘he’.

Metaphor: Tiger’s paws are compared with velvet (pads of velvet)

Enjambment: Sentence is continuing to next line without any punctuation mark.

Imagery: poet tries to create an image about the tiger (He stalks in his vivid stripes The few steps of his cage)

Consonance: use of ‘s’ sound (stalks, his, stripes)

Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘I’ (in his vivid stripes)

Oxymoron: use of adjectives opposite in meaning (quiet rage