Question

In photography poem what oxymoron literary device was used in the poem​

Answer 1

The Poetic Devices used in the poem A Photograph are: Alliteration in "stood still to smile", "terribly transient" and "silence silences". Transferred Epithet in "Washed their terribly transient feet". Oxymoron in "laboured ease''

Answer 2

Poem-

• With the laboured ease (Oxymoron) of loss
• Now she’s has been dead nearly as many years
• As that girl lived. And of this circumstance
• There is nothing to say at all.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two seemingly contradictory or opposite ideas to create a certain rhetorical or poetic effect and reveal a deeper truth. Generally, the ideas will come as two separate words placed side by side. The most common type of oxymoron is an adjective followed by a noun.

Hence,

Oxymoron: It is the combination of two words that seem to be the opposite of each other. e.g. “laboured ease”.

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