CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Onomatopoeia: It is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named. e.g. patter, tinkle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: The poetic device used in the line, ‘Every tinkle on the shingles’ is Onomatopoeia.

Detailed explanation-3: -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’.

Detailed explanation-4: -Rain on the Roof Literary Devices 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-5: -Poet says that every tinkle on the shingles has an echo in the heart. Whenever he hears raindrops falling on the rooftop its sound repeats in his heart and in his dreams. Further, he has many different and fantastic imaginations.