All figures of speech examples at one place:
1.1 Where the Mind is Without Fear…
Examples of Alliteration from the poem.
(1) Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high. Repetition of the sound of ‘w’ and ‘h’.
(2) Where the world has not been broken up into fragments. Repetition of the sound of ‘w’.
(3) Where words come out from the depth of truth. Repetition of the sound of ‘w’.
(4) Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection. Repetition of the sound of T and ‘s’.
(5) Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Repetition of the sound of ‘d’.
Examples of Personification from the poem.
(1) ‘Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection.’ Here ‘tireless striving’ has been given the human quality of stretching its arms.
(2) ‘Dreary desert sand of dead habit’. Here ‘habit’ has been given the quality of death.
Examples of Metaphor from the poem.
(1) ‘Clear stream of reason’. Here reason has been implicitly compared to a clear stream.
(2) ‘Dreary desert sand of dead habit’. Here old habits have been implicitly compared to dreary desert sand.
Other figures of speech from the poem.
‘Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.’
Synecdoche : ‘Country’ stands for the people of the country.
Apostrophe : The poet is addressing the Almighty.