LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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symbolism
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onomatopoeia
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hyperbole
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simile
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The poet is comparing raindrops to tears and he says that the dark sky which seems to be very sad, it appears as if it is crying and the raindrops are the tears shed by it.
Detailed explanation-3: -Following poetic devices have been used in the poem Rain on the Roof: Alliteration: It is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. e.g. “lie listening”, “starry spheres”, “humid hover”, “press pillow”, “darling dreamers” “rain roof” etc.