CLASS 9
RAIN ON THE ROOF
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Alliteration
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Personification
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Metaphor
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Transferred epithet
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hyperbole is there in the phrases ‘And a thousand recollections’, ‘And a thousand dreamy fancies’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Transferred Epithet: When an adjective usually used to describe one thing is transferred to another. e.g. “melancholy darkness”, “dreamy fancies”, “darling dreamers”.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: Alliteration is used in the poem ‘Rain on the Roof’, where the letter ‘L’ is repeated in the words ‘lie listening’. Transferred epithet is used in the words ‘melancholy darkness’ as the sadness of a person in dark is transferred to the ‘darkness’ here.
Detailed explanation-4: -Alliteration is a literary device, which shows the repetition of a sound or a letter in consecutive or adjacent words. The first stanza has several examples of alliteration like ‘busy being’-b sound is an example of alliteration. ‘rain roof’-r sound is an example of alliteration.
Detailed explanation-5: -The figures of speech in the poem Life by Charlotte Bronte are Similes, Metaphor, Personification, and Symbolism.