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The figures of speech in the poem -A tiger in the zooFire and ice |
| Answer» \tPersonification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘he’.\tMetaphor: Tiger’s paws are compared with velvet (pads of velvet)\tEnjambment: Sentence is continuing to next line without any punctuation mark.\tImagery: poet tries to create an image about the tiger (He stalks in his vivid stripes The few steps of his cage)\tConsonance: use of ‘s’ sound (stalks, his, stripes)\tAssonance: use of vowel sound ‘I’ (in his vivid stripes)\tOxymoron: use of adjectives opposite in meaning (quiet rage)\tAlliteration: use of sound ‘p’ at the start of two words (plump pass)\tImagery: The poet has tries to create an image of tiger’s activities (lurking in shadow).\tOnomatopoeia: using words which denote sound (snarling)\tAssonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ and ‘I’ (should, around, houses), (Baring, his, white, his)\tConsonance: use of consonant sound ‘s’ (his, fangs, his, claws)\tPersonification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘he’.\tAssonance: use of vowel sound ‘e’ (he, locked, concrete, cell)\tConsonance: use of consonant sound ‘s’ (his, strength, bars)\tAlliteration: use of sound ‘b’ at the start of two words (behind bars)\tAlliteration: use of sound ‘h’ in the starting of two words (he hears)\tAssonance: use of ‘I’ sound (with, his, brilliant) | |