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Figure of Speech – Small Towns and Rivers (Poem No. 8) Class 12 English
1. My hometown lies calmly amidst the trees,
- Personification – The home town has been personified by being given the quality of lying calmly.
2. In summer or winter,
- Antithesis – ‘Summer’ & ‘Winter’ two opposite words (seasons) are in this line.
3. Just the other day someone died,
- Alliteration – In this line the sound ‘d’ has been repeated.
4. Looking at the sad wreath of tuberoses.
- Transferred Epithet – The epithet sad has been transferred from the occasion of someone’s death to the wreath of tuberoses’
- Personification – The wreath of tuberoses has been personified giving it the human quality of being sad.
5. In the dreadful silence we wept
- Transferred Epithet – The epithet dreadful has been transferred from the situation to the silence.
- Inversion – The order of the sentence has been changed for poetic effect.
- Alliteration – In this line the sound ‘w’ has been repeated.
6. Life and death, life and death,
- Repetition – The phrase life and death has been repeated.
- Antithesis – Two opposite words life and death has been placed in the same line.
7. The river has a soul.
- Personification – The river has personified as it is said to have a soul.
8. In the summer it cuts through the land like a torrent of grief
- Simile – The river has been directly compared to a torrent of grief with the use of the word ‘lile’
- Personification – The river is personified by being given the animate quality of cutting through the land.
- Metaphor – Grief has been indirectly compared to torrent
9. Sometimes, Sometimes, I think hold its breath Seeking a land of fish and stars.
- Personification – The river is personified as it has been given the animate qualities of ‘holding it breath’ and ‘seeking’
- Repetition – The word sometimes has been repeated.
- Alliteration – In this line the sound ‘s’ has been repeated.
10. It knows, stretching past the town
- Personification – The river is personified as it has been given the human quality of knowing
11. From the first drop of rain to dry earth.
- Alliteration – In this line the sound ‘f’ & ‘d’ has been repeated.
12. And mist on the mountaintop
- Alliteration – In this line the sound ‘m’ has been repeated.
13. The river knows
- Personification – The river is personified as it has been given the human quality of knowing
14. A Shrine of happy picture Marks the day of childhood.
- Transferred Epithet – The epithet happy has been transferred from the time to the pictures.
- Metaphor – The happy pictures have been indirectly compared to a shrine.
- Personification – the pictures are personified as they are given the human quality of being happy.
15. Small towns grow with anxious for the future.
- Personification – The small towns are personified as they are given the human qualities of growing and feeling anxious.
- Alliteration – In this line the sound ‘f’ has been repeated.
16. The dead are placed pointing were
- Alliteration – In this line the sound ‘p’ has been repeated.
17. It will walk into the golden east,
- Transferred epithet – The epithet golden has been transferred from the rays of the sun to east.
18. Into the house of the sun.
- Metaphor – The east has been indirectly compared to the house of the sun.
19. Life matters, like this.
- Alliteration – In this line the sound ‘I’ has been repeated.
20. We all want to walk with the gods.
- Alliteration – In this line the sound ‘w’ has been repeated.
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