CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Alliteration: The repetition of a consonant sound in two or more consecutive words. ‘Humid Hover’ – ‘h’ sound is repeating. ‘starry spheres’ – ‘s’ should is repeating. ‘press pillow’-‘p’ sound is repeating.

Detailed explanation-2: -The poetic device – alliteration is used.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alliteration-It is the repetition of a letter at the start of closely placed words. The repetition of the letter: ‘W’ in wind god winnows. ‘C’ throughout the stanza.

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: -There is onomatopoeia in the words ‘patter’, ‘echo’. Hyperbole is there in the phrases ‘And a thousand recollections’, ‘And a thousand dreamy fancies’. Personification is noticed in ‘Weave their air-threads into woof’. The dreams and recollections are personifies as ‘their’.