Question

give the figures of speech from the poem Invictus written by William Ernest Henley

Answer 1

The various figures of speech in the poem Invictus written by William Ernest Henley are:

# Simile – Black as the pit from pole to pole

# Personification (Giving human traits to a non-living object) – The word night in the line “Out of the night that covers me”; the word circumstance in the line “In the fell clutch of circumstance”; the word chance in the line “Under the bludgeonings of chance”

# Imagery (visually descriptive form of figurative language) – My head is __________, but unbowed; Beyond this place of wrath and tears

# Metaphor (word or phrase applied to an action or object to which it is not literally applicable) – The word shade in the line “Looms but the Horror of the shade”; the term menace of the years in the line “And yet the menace of the years”

Answer 2

Answer:

black as a pit from pole to pole