CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Very easy to decipher. Because the words are self-explanatory: pitter-patter is the sound of raindrops.

Detailed explanation-2: -In some circumstances, the talk becomes a different sense of “patter": to make a series of rapid strokes or pats, as of raindrops. Here, it is a form of onomatopoeia.

Detailed explanation-3: -the sound of a rapid succession of light beats or taps, as of rain, footsteps, etc.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are many onomatopoeias that can be used to describe the way that water sounds. Water can: bubble, burble, gargle, gurgle, plop, pitter-patter, slosh, splash, splosh, splatter, sputter, swoosh, or tinkle.

Detailed explanation-5: -The sound of rain is the sound millions of raindrops make due to air/wind resisting their free fall. Coming from 2, 000 meters high and at a speed of 9.8m/s, the raindrops cause immense air vibrations, which are then propagated to our ears as the sound of rain.