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Question
Identify the figures of speech in the following lines from the poem.
(a) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.
(b) Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom.
Solution
In the first line alliteration is used where the ‘d’ sound is used to convey sound and peaceful sleep. In the second line the poet has used simile to make comparison.
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