Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Comprehension - (Poetry / Literary)

Question:

Read the poem and answer the question below

I lost my talk

The talk you took away.

When I was a little girl

At Shubenacadie school.

 

You snatched it away:

I speak like you

I think like you

I create like you

The scrambled ballad, about my word.

 

Two ways I talk

Both ways I say,

Your way is more powerful.

 So gently I offer my hand and ask,

Let me find my talk

So I can teach you about me

Which poetic device is used in the following line? 

"....The scrambled ballad, about my word"

 

Options:

Metaphor

Simile 

Allusion

Personification

Correct Answer:

Metaphor

Explanation:

A metaphor is a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else. Her life has become a 'scrambled ballad' because of what the oppressive system has done to her.