Question

Which literary devices are used in the following sentences:
(i) ‘The table trembled in the silence

(ii) ‘You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.’

Answer 1

Answer:

i is personification

no ii idk

Answer 2

(i) ‘The table trembled in the silence- The literary device used here is alliteration and personification.

Alliteration:

• Alliteration is the repetition of sounds in consecutive words.
• Here the ‘t’ sound is repeated in ‘table’ and ‘trembled’.
• Please note that the word ‘The’ also begins with ‘t’, but it sounds more like ‘d’ than ‘t’.
• So, it is not part of the alliteration.

Personification:

• Personification is giving human qualities/aspects to non-living things.
• Here, the table is trembling, like humans do.

(ii) ‘You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.’

The literary devices used here are metaphor and anastrophe.

Metaphor:

• A metaphor is a device that is used to compare two seemingly different things/aspects.
• Here, the speaker is comparing the self to a ‘heap of ashes’.
• The words ‘like’ or ‘as’ are not used in metaphors.

Anastrophe:

• Anastrophe is when the order of words in a sentence is changed.
• Here, the speaker does not simply say, ‘I am a heap of ashes and you have kindles me into a fire.’
• Instead, the words have been moved around for a more dramatic effect.

More on literary devices:

• https://brainly.in/question/13834221?msp_srt_exp=6 (transferred epithet)
• https://brainly.in/question/18560530?msp_srt_exp=6 (alliteration)
• https://brainly.in/question/11945868?msp_srt_exp=6 (tautology and inversion)
• https://brainly.in/question/17350998 (anaphora)

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