Figure of speech
‘father returning home’
1) find out an example of Transferred Epithet from the poem
Answer - Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night
Transferred Epithet - explanation in the given line an adjective’ humid ‘ transferred from weather to the night . weather is humid not the night.
2) Name and explain the figure of speech in the given line and find out the same from the poem
My father travels on the late evening train
Answer -Alliteration- in this line the sound ’ t ‘ is repeated to create musical effect in the poem.
example- his shirt and pants are soggy
3) Find out an example of paradox from the poem
Answer - suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes
In this line eyes are described as unseen and it is unbelievable or absurd.
4) Name and explain the figure of speech in the given line
He hurries across the length of the grey platform
Answer= Metaphor- in the above line the grey platform is indirectly compared with old age of poet’s father.
5) Home again I see him drinking weak tea
name and explain
the figure of speech in the above line
Answer- transferred
epithet in the above line an adjective week is transferred from person to tea.
6) Find out two examples of Alliteration
Answer – a) man’s estrangement from a man made world
b)
crosses the railway line enters the lane
7) Home again I see him drinking weak tea eating a stale
chapati reading a book.
find out figure
of speech and explain .
Answer- Synecdoche-
in the above line stale chapati stands for stale food . the part (chapati)
symbolises the whole(food).
8) Find out an example of personification and explain it.
Answer - the cold
water running over he is brown hands.
personification
=in the above line the water is given the human quality that is to run so the
figure of speech is personification.
9)Find out an example of Onomatopoeia .
Answer- listening
to the static on the radio .
onomatopoeia -in this line the word static represents the
sound so the figure of speech is Onomatopoeia.
10) Find out an example of Repetition from the poem.
Answer -his shirt
and pants are soggy and his black
raincoat stained with mud and his bag stuffed with books.
explanation- in
the above line the word ‘his’ is
repeated three times ,the figure of speech is Repetition
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