CLASS- 11(English Core)

POETIC DEVICES
1. Photograph
 Transferred Epithet: Washed their terribly transient feet
 Alliteration: Stood still to smile, terribly transient and silence silences
 Personification: Its silence silences
 Oxymoron: Labored ease
2. The LaburnumTop
 Alliteration: September sunlight, tree trembles
 Simile: Sleek as a lizard
 Metaphor: It is the engine of her family, showing her barred face identity mask
 Personification: The whole tree trembles and thrills
 Transferred Epithet: her barred face identity mask
3. The Voice of the Rain
 Metaphor: I am the poem of the earth
 Hyperbole: bottomless sea
 Oxymoron: day and night, reck’d and unreck’d
 Paradox: I give back life to my own origin
 Imagery: Soft falling shower,I rise impalpable out of the land, descend to lave the
droughts
4. Childhood
 Alliteration: Hell and heaven, was that the day, was it when I found my mind was
really mine, whichever way
 Antithesis: Hell and heaven
 Enjambment: Was it the time I realized that adults were not All they seemed to
be, They talked of love and preached of love, But did not act so lovingly, Was
that the day
 Repetition: When did my childhood go? Was that the day! (repeated many times
in the poem)
Explanation

1. Transferred Epithet- The figure of speech where the adverb is transferred to

another noun
2. Alliteration- Repetition of consonant sound at the beginning of two or more
consecutive words.
3. Personification- where animals, plants or even inanimate objects are given
human qualities
4. Oxymoron- A figure of speech that combines contradictory words with
opposing meanings
5. Simile- Comparison between two things using like or as
6. Metaphor- an indirect comparison between two things. Generally a quality is
compared
7. Hyperbole- A literary technique where an author intentionally uses
exaggeration for emphasis and effect
8. Imagery- it uses vivid description and vivid language, deepening the reader’s
understanding of the work, by appealing to the senses
9. Paradox- It is a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in
reality it expresses a possible truth
10.Antithesis- This poetic device pairs opposite or contrasting ideas adjacent to
each other
11.Enjambment-It is the continuation of a sentence to multiple lines
12.Repetition- using the same word or phrase over and over again