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The figures of speech in the poem -A tiger in the zoo Fire and ice
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Gaurav Seth 3 years, 7 months ago

  • Personification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘he’.
  • Metaphor: Tiger’s paws are compared with velvet (pads of velvet)
  • Enjambment: Sentence is continuing to next line without any punctuation mark.
  • Imagery: poet tries to create an image about the tiger (He stalks in his vivid stripes The few steps of his cage)
  • Consonance: use of ‘s’ sound (stalks, his, stripes)
  • Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘I’ (in his vivid stripes)
  • Oxymoron: use of adjectives opposite in meaning (quiet rage)
  • Alliteration: use of sound ‘p’ at the start of two words (plump pass)
  • Imagery: The poet has tries to create an image of tiger’s activities (lurking in shadow).
  • Onomatopoeia: using words which denote sound (snarling)
  • Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ and ‘I’ (should, around, houses), (Baring, his, white, his)
  • Consonance: use of consonant sound ‘s’ (his, fangs, his, claws)
  • Personification: The tiger is personified because the poet refers him as ‘he’.
  • Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘e’ (he, locked, concrete, cell)
  • Consonance: use of consonant sound ‘s’ (his, strength, bars)
  • Alliteration: use of sound ‘b’ at the start of two words (behind bars)
  • Alliteration: use of sound ‘h’ in the starting of two words (he hears)
  • Assonance: use of ‘I’ sound (with, his, brilliant)
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