What are the figure of speech used in the elephant and the tragopan poem
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figures of speech are the styles and devices used in a literary work to bring out the meanings in the poem or the novel .stylistic devices helps in creating an effect to the reader such that they are the ways in which a poet is bringing out his /her thematic concerns
the common styles in writing include the personification simile ,proverbs ,irony allusion, anaphora ,alliteration ,repetition allegory among others
in the poem elephant and the tragopan the poet uses a lot of personification to give the elephant the human characters among others
"In the poem – ‘Elephant and the Tragopan’, poet uses and keeps the perfect string with – Personification. Figures of speech are the literary devices used in a poem such as metaphors, alliteration, simile, personification alliteration, allegory etc.
Personification is the literary device where the non-living thing is projected and expressed in terms of life or a living creature. E.g. The River chattered like bubbly girls. The poem in reference gives the Elephant, a human image. It describes how animals self-talk in their mind about the selfish nature of humans. It gives animals referred to in the poem the human voice and human capabilities and a human reflection as they tend to talk and think like humans as social beings do."