LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Which of the following literary elements in present in this passage:Wind now commences to sing Wind now commences to sing. The land stretches before me, Before me stretches away
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Personification
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Simile
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Metaphor
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The use of the simile which compares the ‘bine-stems’ like ‘strings of broken lyres’ indicates that there is no happiness or music. Everything is dead.
Detailed explanation-2: -With blast-beruffled plume, blast – very strong gust of wind; beruffled – disordered, scruffy; plume – feathers. Had chosen thus to fling his soul. Upon the growing gloom.
Detailed explanation-3: -The “weakening eye of the day” suggests fading and dying. The poet is watching the sunset and he sees the sun slowly disappearing, making the way for the cold night to arrive. It suggests like the end of the day with things ending as well, just like the end of the century soon.
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