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Literary devices:
STANZA 1

1. Anaphora: Repeated use of a word at start of two or more lines (don’t bite…
don’t hunch)
2. Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ (don’t hunch your shoulders)
3. Rhyme: aaba ccc (Amanda, Amanda, straight, Amanda, sea, me, blissfully)
4. Metaphor: use of word emerald sea for green colour of sea being similar to the
colour of emrald
5. Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
6. Imagery: drifting blissfully
7. Alliteration: ‘Stop that slouching and sit up straight’ - ‘s’ sound is being repeated
at the start of closely placed words.
8. Allusion: ‘mermaid’ is a well known imaginary creature.
STANZA 2
1. Anaphora: Repeated use of a word at start of two or more lines (did you
finish….did you tidy)
2. Rhyme: Rhyme scheme is aadaeee (Amanda, Amanda, shoes, Amanda, street,
feet, sweet)
3. Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘o’ (Thought, told, you, your, shoes)
4. Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
5. Metaphor: silence is golden - silence is said to be glorious like golden colour
freedom is sweet - freedom is said to be sweet in taste.
STANZA 3
1. Allusion: use of famous fairy tale character Rapunze
2. Rhyme: rhyme scheme aafaggg (Amanda, Amanda, you, Amanda, care, rare,
hair)
3. Assonance: use of vowel sound ‘e’ and ‘o’ (Will you please look at me when I’m
speaking to you
4. Consonance: use of sound ‘r’ (I am Rapunzel; I have not a care …..Bright hair)
5. Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
STANZA 4
1. Alliteration: ‘Stop that sulking’ - ‘s’ sound is repeated at the start of closely
placed words
2. Repetition: use of word ‘Amanda’
3. Rhyme scheme: aaha (Amanda, Amanda, you, Amanda)

Short questions & answers

Q1: What picture of Amanda do you form from the poem ‘Amanda’?
A: Amanda is a little school going girl. She is constantly nagged by her parent. It is probably the
mother. She keeps asking Amanda to do this or not to do that. But poor Amanda longs to be