What are the Literary devices used in poem A roadside stand? Class 12
Dear Student,
The following poetic devices can be identified in the poem:
1. Transferred epithet - 'polished traffic' and 'selfish cars'
2. Personification - 'the sadness that lurks behind the window', 'the roadside stand that too pathetically pled'
3. Alliteration - 'greedy good doers' and 'beneficent beasts of prey', 'pathetically pled'
4. Oxymoron - 'greedy good doers' and 'beneficent beasts of prey'
5. Metaphor - 'The flower of the cities from sinking and withering faint'
Regards
The following poetic devices can be identified in the poem:
1. Transferred epithet - 'polished traffic' and 'selfish cars'
2. Personification - 'the sadness that lurks behind the window', 'the roadside stand that too pathetically pled'
3. Alliteration - 'greedy good doers' and 'beneficent beasts of prey', 'pathetically pled'
4. Oxymoron - 'greedy good doers' and 'beneficent beasts of prey'
5. Metaphor - 'The flower of the cities from sinking and withering faint'
Regards