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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SIMILIE
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METAPHOR
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ASSONANCE
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alliteration: The repetition of a consonant sound in two or more consecutive words. ‘Humid Hover’ – ‘h’ sound is repeating.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Answers. Alliteration is used in the poem ‘Rain on the Roof’, where the letter ‘L’ is repeated in the words ‘lie listening’.
Detailed explanation-4: -Melancholy darkness – here the darkness is not sad but the people are. Dreamy fancies – here the person is dreamy and not the fancies. Tinkle – sound of raindrops in the shingles or the tiles of the roof. Darkness is melancholy and weeping like a sad person.
Detailed explanation-5: -In “The Mother, ” Gwendolyn Brooks utilizes rhyme, metaphor, and visual imagery to express a mother’s strong and entrenched emotions towards her lost children. Throughout the entire poem, she speaks to an audience which the reader can infer is the children that she lost.