Question

Please identify the figures of speech of the poem Bangle sellers! Experts please!

Answer 1

hello Buddy,

The figures of speech used by Sarojini Naidu in The Bangle Sellers are:

1. Alliteration: Repeated words beginning with the same sound - mountain mist; hue of her heart's; her husband's and her household

2. Simile - direct comparison using the words 'as' or 'like' - 'like fields of sunlit corn'; 'like the flame of her marriage fire'; 'silver and blue as the mountain mist'

3. Metaphor -  indirect comparison by giving attributes of one thing to another - 'rainbow tinted circles'

4. Imagery -  'tinkling, luminous'; 'purple and gold-flecked gray'; 'buds that dream On the tranquil brow of a woodland stream'

Hope this helps

Merry Christmas

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