Adapted poem context: A speaker holding a pen watches and remembers his father digging. The memory moves between the father's skilled physical work and the speaker's own choice of writing. The speaker admires the father's ability with the spade even though he follows a different vocation. Adapted CTET December 2024 Set F item 100: The poetic devices in line 2 and line 4 are :

1. hyperbole and metaphor
2. simile and alliteration
3. metaphor and simile
4. metaphor and personification