Question

Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.

Answer 1

The figure of speech used in these lines is ‘Simile.’ The poet uses the expression “ashen like that of a corpse” to compare the face of her aging mother to that of a corpse. Such a comparison between two different entities used to make a description more vivid is called a simile. Another example of a simile is the phrase ‘as clever as a fox.’