Question

what literary devices are used in the first stanza (tigers in the zoo class 10)​

Answer 1

• Rhyme scheme: abcb (cage-rage)

• Personification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘he’.

• Metaphor: Tiger’s paws are compared with velvet (pads of velvet)

• Enjambment: Sentence is continuing to next line without any punctuation mark.

• Imagery: poet tries to create an image about the tiger (He stalks in his vivid stripes The few steps of his cage)

• Consonance: use of ‘s’ sound (stalks, his, stripes)

• Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘I’ (in his vivid stripes)

• Oxymoron: use of adjectives opposite in meaning (quiet rage)

Answer 2

Answer:

STANZA 1

• Rhyme scheme: abcb

• Personification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘He’.

• Metaphor: Tiger’s paws are compared with velvet (pads of velvet)

• Enjambment: Sentence is continuing to next line without any punctuation mark.(He stalks……his cage)

• Imagery: poet tries to create an image about the tiger (He stalks in his vivid stripes The few steps of his cage)

• Alliteration: Repetition of ‘s’ sound (stalks, his, stripes)

• Transferred Epithet: quiet rage(Tiger is quiet not rage)

• Oxymoron: use of adjectives opposite in meaning (quiet rage)

• Repetition- quiet

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