Lakhmee Chand asked 8 years ago
Mention the figure of speech used in the quoted line below from William Wordsworth’s poem ‘The Daffodils’ or ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance.
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This is a fine instance of Hyperbole. A hyperbole is an exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
When the poet says that he saw ten thousand daffodils at a glance, he certainly means a lot of flower, a host of daffodils, and not ‘ten thousand’ literally. He didn’t actually count it.
Also Read: All Figures of speech / Poetic devices used in The Daffodils
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In the given extract we learn that the poet has used hyperbole (exaggerating the number of daffodils) and inversion (exchanging the place of words or completely inverting the sentence).
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