CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Personification: In this poem, the poet uses the device of personification with respect to Belinda’s kitten, mouse, and dog. In the 2nd line of the 5th stanza, he gives them all the human ability to speak to and tease another being.

Detailed explanation-2: -(d) Figure of speech used in first and third line is Simile. Question 5. Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful, Ink, Blink and Mustard, they rudely called him Percival, They all sat laughing in the little red wagon At the realio, trulio, cowardly dragon.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Belinda by Maria Edgeworth, Clarence Hervey has a raging superiority complex that leads him to a self created sadness in the end. Through literary devices such as point of view, tone, and language, Edgeworth develops Hervery’s character as a vain and self absorbed man.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alliteration. Alliteration is the repetitions of the same sound used in the beginning of the closely placed words. The line ‘Belinda is as brave as a barrel full of bears’ is an example of alliteration in the poem.

Detailed explanation-5: -Belinda giggled till she shook the house, And Blink said Weeck! which is giggling for a mouse, Ink and Mustard rudely asked his age, When Custard cried for a nice safe cage. Suddenly, suddenly they heard a nasty sound, And Mustard growled, and they all looked around.