CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Alliteration: It is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. e.g. “crumbling houses, crumbling doors, crumbling rafters, crumbling wood, crumbling bodies, crumbling lives, crumbling hearts”, “the wind god winnows”, “He won’t do what you tell him.”

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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alliteration: One of the most used poetic devices, Alliteration is a phonetic structure and repeated usage of sound or letter used in the first syllable of a word. It is considered as the oldest poetic tool that is generally used for two or more words in a poem.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: Personification is used in the term wind God .

Detailed explanation-5: -An example of personification of wind is: The wind leapt through the open window and scattered across the tile floor. Another example of the personification of wind is the poem “wind” by Subramania Bharati in which the poet talks to the wind and describes the power of wind as destructive. “Wind, come softly.