![]() ![]() An animal's real cry might not sound " powerful enough", so they're replaced with a "cooler" or "more appropriate" sounding cry. This trope often occurs due to Reality Is Unrealistic. Only one type of frog goes "ribbit" - the Pacific tree frog it lives in Hollywood. Common examples include foxes, wolves, and hyenas sounding like dogs, all big cats sounding like tigers, all big whales sounding like humpback whales, all seabirds sounding like herring gulls, zebras sounding like horses, and penguins sounding like ducks. Animals who look similar or belong in the same general family are assumed to sound alike, when in reality they don't. This applies even to animals within the same species - certain tiny dog breeds have deep barks because they're either sized-down versions of large dogs or they were bred for their bark (for example, beagles). Except, in real life, they don't.Īnimals have a variety of noises and even relatively closely related animals can sound completely different from one another. ![]() Also, certain sentences are framed differently in the poem like ‘novice might nonplus’ and ‘if strolling forth, a beast you view’.All owls hoot, all big cats roar, all bears growl the same way, all rodents (and rodent-looking animals) squeak, all monkeys and apes hoot and screech like chimpanzees, and all birds of prey scream like the red-tailed hawk (because a bald eagle's cry MUST be awesome).In some stanzas, she has shortened words like ‘lept’, ‘lep’, and ‘dyin’. The poet has employed poetic licence in her use of language in the poem.With the use of poetic licence, the poet not only maintains the rhyme scheme but also creates a humorous effect in the poem.It is done by giving two meanings to a word or a phrase, i.e., surface meaning and underlying meaning. Irony is a poetic device that is used by the poets to bring humour or satire on somebody or something. The human qualities of ‘smiling’ and ‘weeping’ have been given to the hyena and crocodile respectively.In the poem, the ‘hyena’ and ‘crocodile’ have been personified.The poet refers to the tiger not as ‘it’ but as ‘he’.This poetic device is used to bestow human qualities on something that is not human.Repetition is a poetic device that is used to repeat single words, phrases or even stanzas at intervals.The phrases ‘ lep and lep again’, ‘ roaming round’, ‘ very, very hard’ and ‘novice might nonplus’ are examples of alliteration in the poem.Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound that is used in the beginning of the closely placed words.the term ‘caress’ is used ironically for a bear’s claw attack.A noble wild beast – Ironically leopard is shown here as a noble one.roar with pain – the painful voice compared ironically with the roar of a leopard.In the poem, the metaphors have been used in an ironical way. ![]() This poetic device is used when a covert comparison is made between two different things or ideas. The same can be found in the phrase ‘ true Chameleon‘. These two terms are contradictory and create a paradoxical expression, making it an oxymoron. The word “noble” implies a sense of honour, dignity, and grace, while “wild beast” suggests an untamed, savage animal. The oxymoron is used in “noble wild beast”.
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