Question

The sixth age shifts , Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. [ Name the figure of speech ]​

Answer 1

Answer:

hyperbole or personification

Answer 2

Answer:

The figure of speech of the given phrase is 'personification' .

Explanation:

• It is an adjective that is affixed to a personified noun, to put it simply.
• Not the pants themselves are slender and slipper-like in this case.
• Instead, it is the elderly man who has lost weight and is dressed in pyjamas.
• The inanimate term pantaloon is personified by the modifiers lean and slipper'd.
• Personification is a literary device or figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human characteristics or skills (usually seen as a sort of metaphor).
• If we see, in classical rhetoric, personification is referred to as prosopopoeia.
• The term "personification" has two distinct meanings that must be distinguished.
• One alludes to the technique of giving an abstraction a real personality.
• Modern theorists of religion and anthropology refer to this process as "personification" because it has its roots in animism and ancient religion.

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