Question

Lencho had predicted, big drops of rain began to fall. In the north-east huge mountains of clouds could be seen approaching. The air was fresh and sweet. The man went out for no other reason than to have the pleasure of feeling the rain on his body, and when he returned he exclaimed, “These aren’t raindrops falling from the sky, they are new coins. The big drops are ten cent pieces and the little ones are fives.”


b) ‘huge mountains of clouds’--- Name the figure of speech used in the phrase given alongside.​

Answer 1

• The figure of speech used in these lines is ‘Simile.’ The poet uses the expression “ashen like that of a corpse” to compare the face of her aging mother to that of a corpse. Such a comparison between two different entities used to make a description more vivid is called a simile. Another example of a simile is the phrase ‘as clever as a fox.’