XI STD. UNIT 2.2. THE SOWER FIGURE OF SPEECH

Poem2.2 The sower.
Figure of speech Used in this poem
Personification:
1.sunlight, I see dying Fast.
Expl: Human quality of dying is given to sunlight,
2 shadows run across the lands.
Expl: Human quality of running is given to the shadows
3. Black and high, his silhouette, Dominate the flurrows deep!
Expl: Dominating someone is human quality, given to the silhouette.
4. Twilight hastens on to the rule.
Expl: hastening is a human quality. It is given to the non-human object Twilight.
Inversion:
1.Now to Sow the task is set.
Expl: word order is not in.correct prose order. The correct prose order is
The task is set to sow now.
2. Marches He along the plain.
expl: correct prose order is
He marches along the plain.
Alliteration:
 1. seem to touch the starry skies.
2 sunlight I see dying fast.
3. From his hand the precious grain.
Hyperbole:
1.His hight seems to touch the starry skies.
Expl: Starry Skies never be touched by height of the person.
overstatement is used.
Antithesis:
1. Darkness deepens, Fades the light.
Expl: Darkness and light is opposite Words.
opposite idea is expressed.
Apostrophe: 
1. Dominates the furrow deep!
Expl: Use of apostrophe for conveying the intensity of action.