Question

poetic devices of tiger in the zoo​

Answer 1

Answer:

Personification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘he’.

§ Metaphor: Tiger’s paws are compared with velvet (pads of velvet)

§ Imagery: poet tries to create an image about the tiger (He stalks in his vivid stripes The few

steps of his cage)

§ Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘I’ (in his vivid stripes)

§ Oxymoron: use of adjectives opposite in meaning (quiet rage)

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