Question

Identify the literary device in ‘slums as big as doom’.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Similie

Explanation:

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Answer 2

Answer:

The literary device used in 'slums as big as doom' is a simile.

Explanation:

• A figure of speech is a word or phrase that possesses a separate meaning from its literal definition.

• A simile is a figure of speech and type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.”
• Simile is used to make a comparison. The purpose of a simile is to help describe one thing by comparing it to another thing, that is perhaps seemingly unrelated.
• Similes often use hyperbole, or exaggeration. It is done in order to emphasise.
• The simile ‘slums as big as doom’ is used in the poem 'An Elementary School in a Slum'
• The poet considers slums as big doom because it is a blockade which does not allow the children of slum areas to escape. The children have to live in their present conditions throughout their life.
• There is very little food, no hygiene and no shelter.
• They are forced to live in such dire conditions throughout their life.