Question

What are the figures of speech used in Sarojini Naidu's poem; The Bangle Sellers?

Answer 1

The figures of speech used by Sarojini Naidu in The Bangle Sellers are:

1. Alliteration: Repeated words beginning with the same sound - mountain mist; hue of her heart's; her husband's and her household

2. Simile - direct comparison using the words 'as' or 'like' - 'like fields of sunlit corn'; 'like the flame of her marriage fire'; 'silver and blue as the mountain mist'

3. Metaphor -  indirect comparison by giving attributes of one thing to another - 'rainbow tinted circles'

4. Imagery -  'tinkling, luminous'; 'purple and gold-flecked gray'; 'buds that dream On the tranquil brow of a woodland stream'

Answer 2

Answer:

fugure of speech in poem bangle seller

SIMILE

• silver and blue as mountains Mist
• some are flushed like the buds that dream
• some are like fields of Sunlight corn
• tinkling luminious, tender, and clear like a bridal laughter and bridal tear

METAPHOR

• Rainbow-tinted circles of light

ALLITRATION

• or, rich with the hue of his hearts desire
• some are meet of maiden's wrist

Explanation:

metaphor..... is the comparison of two different things which are interelated indirectly

alliteration ......is the consonant sounds in neighbouring words

simile .....when two things are compared indirectly using prepositions 'like' and 'as'