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Figure of Speech -Father Returning Home (Poem No. 5) Class 12

Figure of Speech -Father Returning Home (Poem No. 5) Class 12
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Figure of Speech – Father Returning Home (Poem No. 5) Class 12

We are giving Line wise Figure of Speech.

QuestionsAnswers
1. My Father travels on the late evening trainAlliteration : In this line the sound ‘t’ has been repeated/
2. Standing among silent commuters in the yellow lightAlliteration : In this line the sound ‘s’ has been repeated
3. Suburbs slide past his unseeing Transferred Epithet : The epithet unseeing has been transferred from the poet to his eyes.
Alliteration : In this line the sound ‘s’ has been repeated.
Paradox : The phrase ‘unseeing eyes’ is self contradictory
Personification : Suburbs are given animate quality of sliding past
4. His shirt and pants are soggy his black raincoatMetaphor : The black raincoat is indirectly compared to bleakness of the rainy day
5. Stained with mud and his stuffed with books.Alliteration : In this line the sound ‘s’ has been repeated.
6. His eyes dimmed by age Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.Transferred Epithet: The epithet humid has been transferred from weather to the night.
Metaphor : The eyes that fade homeward are indirectly compared to weariness.
Alliteration : In this line the sound ‘h’ has been repeated.
7. Now I can see him getting off the Like a word dropped from a long sentence.Smile : The action of the father getting off from the crowded train is directly comapred to a word being dropped form a long sentence. The word ‘like’ is used.
8. He hurries across the lengh of grey platform.Metaphor : The grey platform is indirectly compared to father’s old age.
Alliteration : In this line the sound ‘h’ has been repeated.
9. Crosses the railway line, enters the lane,Alliteration : In this line the sound ‘I’ has been repeated.
10. His chappals are strickly with mud, but he hurries onward.Alliteration : In this line the sound ‘h’ has been repeated.
11. The cold water running over his brown hands,Transferred Epithet: The epithet brown has been trasferred from man to hands.

So I think you understood the this all the figures of the Speech.

Thanks to All Beloved Readers.

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