The document analyzes the literary devices and techniques used in the poem "The Machine". It identifies the poem's use of rhyme, imagery, personification, hyperbole, assonance, simile, connotation, and alliteration to describe the capabilities and power of machines in an exaggerated yet imaginative way. Specific examples are provided to illustrate each literary device.

2. 1) Rhythm and rhyme:
-It has a clear rhyme with a,b,a,b
-The rhyme is also clear with the same sound.
Eg: pit-fit, ask-task, play-day
2) Imagery:
Eg: We can see and hear and count and read and
write!(s 2 l 4)
-It explains to us the multi-task that could be
completed by the machine.
-It is to give us the idea of how feasible is the
machine

3. 3)Personification : equalise to living beings
read
Example:
- We can pull and haul and push and lift and
drive
- We can print and plough and weave and heat
and light
- We can run and jump and swim and fly and
dive
- We can see and hear and count and write

4. 4)Hyperbole: a figure of speech using
exaggeration
Example:
- We will serve you four and twenty hours
a day!
- We are greater than the Peoples and
the Kings.

5. 5) Assonance: Repetition of two
or more vowel sounds
Example:
- Run and jump
- Across the world
- Slip in handling

6. 6) Simile: Compare things
alike
Example:
- Greater than the people of
the Kings

7. 7) Connotation: suggests
beyond what it expresses
Example:
- Heaven-sky

8. 8) Alliteration: Repetition of two or
more consonant
sounds
Example:
- Wilderness with wheat
- Flood and fills