Figures of Speech
Complete the table giving the name of figure of speech used in the line
Line
Figure of speech
1) The long brown path before me leading wherever
I choose
2) Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am
good-fortune
3) A foot and light-hearted I take to the open road
4) The song of the open road
Answers
1) Personification.
2) Alliteration.
3) Inversion.
4) Alliteration, Metaphor, Repetition, and Paradox.
Explanation:
1) The long brown path before me leads wherever I choose.
Personification- because the path is said to be leading the poet.
2) Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune.
Alliteration - 'I' is repeated, 'good fortune' is repeated. The sound 'k' is repeated.
3) A foot and light-hearted I take to the open road.
Inversion, because the order of words is reversed such that a certain word is emphasized.
Thus the correct order of the sentence will be"I take to the open road afoot and light-hearted".
4) The song of the open road.
Alliteration, Metaphor, Repetition. Throughout the poet encourages the readers to be true to themselves and live freedom of life.
The answers to the above questions are as follows :
1) The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
- The figure of speech is Personification.
- Here, the path is given a human attribute.
- Personification occurs when an object, thing, or abstraction is represented as a person.
2) Henceforth I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune.
- The figure of speech is Alliteration.
- In alliteration, consonant sounds in two or more words are repeated.
- Here, I is repeated, good fortune is repeated.
3) Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road.
- The figure of speech is Inversion.
- In an inversion, there is a reversal of position, order, or form.
- There is a change in normal word order.
- So, the correct order of the sentence would be 'I take to the open road afoot and light-hearted.
4) The song of the open road.
- The figure of speech is Alliteration, Metaphor, Repetition and Paradox.
- Metaphor is used for rhetorical effect, it refers to one thing by mentioning another.
- Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds.
- Repetition is the repeating of a word in a short space of words.
- Paradox can be defined as something that is made up of two opposite things that seem impossible but is true.
Here, it interprets all four together, alliteration and repetition because 'the' word is repeating.
- Metaphor because the sentence is giving rhetorical effect.