Poem - FOS grade 12th

This day is almost over, and its toiling time is through.

• Personification

• Antithesis

Did you waste the day, or lose it, was it well or sorely spent?

• Transferred epithet

• Tautology

You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?

• Antithesis

• Paradox

Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes.

• Paradox

• Metaphor

Now I can see him getting off the train like a word dropped from a long sentence.

• Metaphor

• Simile

He hurries across the length of the grey platform.

• Irony

• Metaphor

Man's estrangement from a man-made world.

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

Listening to the static on the radio.

• Inversion

• Onomatopoeia

For many a false man as a friend.

• Alliteration

• Repetition

Then felt I like a child that holds a trumpet that he must not blow.

• Metaphor

• Simile