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Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extracts given below and write down the answer in the space given below. The first one is done for yon.

(а) “LIKE a huge Python, winding round and round The rugged trunk, indented deep with scars” ,

(b) “A creeper climbs, in whose embraces bound No other tree could live. But gallantly The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung. ”

(c) “A gray baboon sits statue-like aloner”

(d) “The water-lilies spring, like snow enmassed.”

(e) “ What is that dirge – like murmur that I hear Like the sea breaking on a shingle – beach?”

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(а) Zoomorphism / Simile

(b) Personification (As the creeper is said to embrace the tree, the tree also gallantly, like a bold lover, accepts the embrace)

(c) Simile

(d) Simile

(e) Simile

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