CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

RAIN ON THE ROOF

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Identify the figure of speech used in ‘into busy being start’.
A
Alliteration
B
Personification
C
Metaphor
D
Transferred epithet
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -The figure of speech used in the line ‘into busy being start’ is alliteration.

Detailed explanation-3: -Poets use figures of speech in their poems. Several types of figures of speech exist for them to choose from. Five common ones are simile, metaphor, personification, hypberbole, and understatement. A simile compares one thing to another by using the words like or as.

Detailed explanation-4: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is ‘alliteration’. Alliteration is the repetition of a consonant sound in close connection.

Detailed explanation-5: -In English grammar, there are around fifteen to twenty figures of speech. However, there are a few of them which are used more often than the others. Let us look at the most commonly used figures of speech.

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