Question

Which literary devices are used in the following sentences? (i)“In such rising of fire and risings of sun- the firm earth shaken by the rushes of an angry ocean” (ii) “Like the mariner in the old story”

Answer 1

Answer:

i) Personification

ii) imagery

Explanation:

i) The fire, sun and ocean are personified in the first part. All the emotions shown by these non-living things are that of human and the poet or author has tried to give them human personalities.

ii) Here the author or poet gives an image to the reader in his mind that the object looks like "the mariner in the old story". Here he uses imagery