Figure of Speech 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' by Adrienne Rich

Figure of Speech 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' by Adrienne Rich

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1. chivalric certainty
   1.   Personification
   2.   Alliteration
   3.   Repetition
   4.   Imagery
2. They do .....
   They pace.....
   1.   Anaphora
   2.   Repetition
   3.   Alliteration
   4.   personification
3. fingers fluttering
   1.   Repetition
   2.   Irony
   3.   Alliteration
   4.   Metaphor
4. The massive weight of uncle’s wedding band
   1.   Hyperbole
   2.   Metaphor
   3.   Simile
   4.   Personification
5. terrified hands
   1.   Alliteration
   2.   Personification
   3.   Metaphor
   4.   Synecdoche

“We’re Not Afraid to Die... if We Can All Be Together” Gordon Cook and Alan East

“We’re Not Afraid to Die... if We Can All Be Together” Gordon Cook and Alan East

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This short story is about the writer narrating his thrilling across the sea on board his Wavewalker and about how optimism raises ones spirits and helps one overcome stress and difficulty. The narrative describes on how and strong will power helps us overcome all forms of stressful situations. helps to reduce the direct stress. This can be verified with the instance where the level of perseverance rose in the author after seeing the caricatures of him and Mary, drawn by the children. His motive was to travel around the world through sea just like , which he wished to complete in three years. He was with his family, his wife Mary, his daughter and his son who was only six years old.

The first phase was about 105,000 kilometres up to the South African seaport of , which passed off very pleasantly. The second part of the journey was for 150,000 kilometres. This phase was completed in . On 25th December, the writer's ship was in the southern , 3500 kilometres to the east of Cape Town. The family celebrated their new year (1977) on board the ship. Next came a phase when the ship was caught in the stormy seas. The weather suddenly became very terrible. The writer thought that their ship would ride over the waves but were heavily caught amidst the stormy situations at the sea. There was everywhere and they found the ship to be sinking.

The condition was extremely helpless and very pathetic. Water was gushing in from everywhere. was floating across the cabins. The pump was also not working as it had short-circuited. They had to keep pumping and steering all night long. The writer's daughter's head had and she had a deep injury. However, the bravery of the strong-willed children is noteworthy in the story.

On January 4, they breathed a sigh of relief after having survived 36 hours of continuous . However, their relief seemed to be quite short-lived because by evening that day the sea again witnessed bad . This is the turning point of the story when we see the author consoling the children. It was quite amazing that the children exclaimed ...we aren't afraid of dying if we can all be together. This led to the building energy and inside a very extremely fatigued writer. He decided to heave and fight the sea.

Next day saw a very bright morning. He was welcomed by his children who exclaimed You are the best daddy in the . He rushed to the deck and to his amazement, gazed at the stark outline of . It seemed to him to be the most beautiful in the world.

They off shore for the night and then were welcomed by the 28 inhabitants of the island the next morning. All along, the only thing which filled the writer's mind was the undeterred courage which his wife showed, never failing optimism of the sailors Larry and Herb Seigler, his daughter who didn't worry about her head injury and his son who wasn't afraid of dying.

Lost Spring (Literary Devices)

Lost Spring (Literary Devices)

Quiz

 

1. Saheb-e- Alam, which means Lord of the universe, is directly in contrast to what Saheb is in reality.
   1.   Hyperbole
   2.   Irony
   3.   Metaphor
2. Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically.
   1.   Irony
   2.   Antithesis
   3.   Metaphor
3. For the children it is wrapped in wonder; for the elders it is a means of survival.
   1.   Antithesis
   2.   Irony
   3.   Metaphor
4. Scrounging for gold
   1.   Irony
   2.   Metaphor
   3.   Antithesis
5. And survival in Seemapuri means rag picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art.
   1.   Metaphor
   2.   Antithesis
   3.   Hyperbole
6. The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulders.
   1.   Simile
   2.   Hyperbole
   3.   Metaphor
7. Garbage to them is gold
   1.   Metaphor
   2.   Simile
   3.   irony
8. She still has bangles on her wrist but not light in her eyes.
   1.   Irony
   2.   Antithesis
   3.   Metaphor
9. As your hands move mechanically like the terms of a machine, I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make.
   1.   Irony
   2.   Simile
   3.   Hyperbole
10. Few aeroplanes fly over Firozabad.
    1.   Irony
    2.   Metaphor
    3.   Antithesis