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Poetic Devices in all poems of Class-12 English Core CBSE😀😀😀

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Figure of Speech of Flamingo Book at one place!

We were getting lot of comments from our visitors that they are unable to find  ALL POETIC DEVICES used in English Flamingo at One Place. So, we are here with all important literary devices used in flamingo at one place. 

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My Mother at Sixty – Six

1.       Personification – Trees sprinting

2.       Simile – Pale as a late winter’s moon

3.       Imagery – young children , trees sprinting backwards

4.       Metaphor – Merry children spilling out of their homes

5.       Repetition – smile and smile and smile

An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

1.       Simile – windows shut like catacombs, hair like rootless weeds, like bottle bits on stones

2.       Metaphor – language is the sun, lead sky

3.       Imagery – children weighed down by poverty

4.       Repetition – break o break

5.       Symbolism – sun (enlightenment), green fields (regeneration), windows (opportunities)

Keeping Quiet

1.       Repetition – Let’s – to create a bond between listeners

2.       Simile – earth can teach us as when …

3.       Symbolism – brothers (show harmony), clean clothes (no enmity)

A Thing of Beauty

1.       Metaphor- sweet dreams, flowery band, endless fountain of immortal drink

2.       Alliteration – noble natures, cooling covert, band to bind

3.       Transferred epithet – gloomy days

4.       Imagery – flowery wreath, shady boon, green world, clear rills, cooling covert, endless fountain

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

1.       Alliteration – fingers fluttering, prancing proud

2.       Irony – tigers drawn by aunt Jennifer are bold while the creator is weak

3.       Imagery – bright topaz

4.       Symbolism – wedding band (oppression of marriage), tigers (freedom), Aunt Jennifer (oppressed women), uncle (male chauvinism)

Carefully read the following phrases and sentences taken from the text.

 Can you identify the literary device in each example?

1. Saheb-e-Alam which means the lord of the universe is directly in contrast to what Saheb is in reality.

2. Drowned in an air of desolation.

3. Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically

4. For the children it is wrapped in wonder; for the elders it is a means of survival.

5. As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine, I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make. 

6. She still has bangles on her wrist, but not light in her eyes. 

7. Few airplanes fly over Firozabad. 

8. Web of poverty. 

9. Scrounging for gold. 

10. And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art. 

11. The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulders.  

Answers: 

1. Irony 

2. Metaphor 

3. Antithesis 

4. Antithesis 

5. Simile 

6. Pun 

7. Pun 

8. Metaphor 

9. Metaphor 

10. Hyperbole 

11. Paradox

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