Question

Oru only enemy was gold
a) what is the figure of speech employed in the above line​

Answer 1

Answer:

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.

Answer 2

Answer:

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

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