POEM -5 (FLAMINGO) A ROAD SIDE STAND

* Identify the figures of speech of the following:

1. Destroy their sleeping at night the ancient way

• Metonymy

• Metaphor

• Litotes

• Anastrophe

Where they won't have to think for themselves anymore

• Onomatopoeia

• Litotes

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

No, in country money, the country scale of gain,

• Anastrophe

• Tautology

• Repetition

• Personification

A road side stand that too pathetically pled

• Transferred Epithet

• Synecdoche

• Oxymoron

• Personification

The flower of cities from sinking and withering faint.

• Metonymy

• Tautology

• Metaphor

• Transferred Epithet

Of all the thousand selfish cars that pass,

• Litotes

• Synecdoche

• Transferred Epithet

• Oxymoron

And give us the life of the moving-pictures’ promise

• Metonymy

• Oxymoron

• Personification

• Tautology

The little old house was out with a little new shed

• Transferred Epithet

• Hyperbole

• Anti climax

• Antithesis

Or so the voice of the country seems to complain

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

• Simile

• Tautology

And ask for some city money to feel in hand

• Hyperbole

• Apostrophe

• Anastrophe

• Repetition