Question

Identify the poetic devices in the lines below:
1. The violent weather has destroyed the homes of many.
2. In the lover's age, he sighs like furnace
3. All the men and women are mere players on the stage of
life.
4. The pen is mightier than the sword
15. He has a weeping child and a waiting wife.
6. What is a Hyperbole ? Give at least three examples.

Answer 1

1. Personification since weather is given the human quality of being violent.

2. Simile since the lover's sigh is compared to being like a furnace. There is direct comparison between a furnace and lover's sigh.

3. Metaphor since Men and women are indirectly compared to players of a stage.

4. Simile since the pen is compared to a sword directly.

15. Alliteration since the sound of letter 'w' has been repeated pleasingly for greater poetic effect.

6. Hyperbole is a figure of speech where an exaggeration is made.

Example: She cried rivers and oceans.

Example: His voice was heard all across the world.

Example: I've told you to study a million times.