Question

figures of speech from the poem somebody's mother written by Mary Dow Brine

Answer 1

The woman was old and ragged and gray - repartition
Unheeding the glance of her anxious eye - synecdoche
Came happy boys like a flock of sheep - simile
Hastened the children on their way - inversion
She placed and so without hurt or harm - alliteration

Answer 2

The Figures of speech employed in the poem 'Somebody's Mother' by Dow Brine are repetition, Synechdoche, Simile Inversion, Alliteration, and Hyperbole.

Explanation:

• Repetition in 'The woman was old and ragged and gray' captures the readers' attention and emphasizes the idea of women's miserable state.
• The use of Synechdoche in 'Unheeding the glance of her anxious eye' displays her eyes which is representative of her entire condition.
• The line 'Came happy boys like a flock of sheep' employs simile as it establishes a comparison using 'like.'
• Inversion in 'Hastened the children on their way' as it reverses the semantical order of the subject and the verb to highlight the action.
• Alliteration in 'She placed and so without hurt or harm' as the speaker repeats the consonant sound 's' and 'h' at the beginning of two or more words succeeding each other or at short intervals.
• Hyperbole ''ragged and grey... bent with chill'  as the speaker overstates the situation of poor women.

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