Question

Q 3. Identify the literary devices used in the sentences below. No further explanation is required. 1. The men at the windows had not yet swooped into the Hall, like birds of prey from their high perches. (Book the Second, Chapter XXII) _________________________ 2. Every green leaf, every blade of grass and blade of grain, was as shriveled and poor as the miserable people. (Book the Second, Chapter XXIII) _________________________

Answer 1

Answer:

1.simile

2. simile

Explanation:

1. because of the word like

2. because as-as is used

Answer 2

The literary device that has been used in the above statements is simile

Explanation:

• here the composition and the comparison has been made between the man and the birds by using the word like

• A simile is a figure of speech or literary device which  makes a comparison, displaying similarities between 2 different things. A simile draws resemblance with the help of the words such like/as. Hence, it is a direct comparison.

Examples, Our soldiers are as brave as lions. The well was as dry as a bone. Reema is as cunning as a vixen.

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