2.6. Money
Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech:
When I had money, money, O!
Answer: 1. Repetition
For many a false man as a friend
Answer: 1. Simile- a false man is compared to a friend.
Then felt I like a child that holds
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
Much have I thought of life, and seen
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
How poor men’s hearts are ever light;
Answer: 1. Alliteration- Repeat ion of the sound ‘h’.
And how their wives do hum like bees
Answer: Onomatopoeia- used the word ‘hum’
Poor men, think I, need not go up
Answer: 1. Inversion- rearrangement of words for poetic effect.
Not speak to let this false world know.
Answer: Metonymy- world does mean people
So much as rich men should come down.
Answer: 1.Metaphor- comparison of coming down and becoming poor. `
But now I have no money, O!
Answer: Exclamation