Question

Select three poems from the syllabus taught during online classes and highlight the

presence of literary devices. Explain the literary devices and cite suitable examples from

selected poems. Given below is a list of literary devices that you can look for in your poem.

 Simile

 Metaphor

 Personification

 Alliteration

 Repetition

 Oxymoron

 Hyperbole

 Irony​

Answer 1

Answer:

Simile : A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using words such as "like", "as", or "than", while metaphors create an implicit comparison.  Examples : Her cheeks are red like a rose. He is as funny as a monkey. The water well was as dry as a bone. He is as cunning as a fox.

Metaphor : A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Metaphors are often compared with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile.Metaphor can be described as figure of speech in which a thing is referred to as being something that it resembles. ... In this way, metaphors are used in poetry to explain and elucidate emotions, feelings, relationships other elements that could not to described in ordinary language. Examples : The Sun Rising : "She is all states, and all princes, I.

Nothing else is.

Princes do but play us; compared to this,

All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy."

Sonnet 18/Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day : "Thy eternal summer shall not fade."

"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

When I Have Fears :  "Before high piled books, in charactery,

Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain."

"On the shore

Of the wide world I stand alone, and think

Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink."

Personification : Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art, as an anthropomorphic metaphor.  Examples : Hey Diddle, Diddle (by Mother Goose) ...

Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room (by William Blake) ...

She sweeps with many-colored brooms (by Emily Dickinson) ...

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (by William Wordsworth) ...

Take a Poem to Lunch (by Denise Rodgers) ...

Whatif (by Shel Silverstein)

Alliteration : In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently. As a method of linking words for effect, alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme. Examples : ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Scarce from his mold.But blessed forms in whistling storms. And the balls like pulses beat;The free bird thinks of another breeze.He was four times a father, this fighter prince.

Irony​ : Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case or to be expected differs radically from what is actually the case. Irony can be categorized into different types, including verbal irony, dramatic irony, and situational irony. Examples : “Go ask his name: if he be married. My grave is like to be my wedding bed.”