ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -LITERARY ELEMENT: METAPHOR She compares the noise of her house burning to thunder. The metaphor conveys the loudness of the sound and the frightening effect it had. (Line 34) How does the poem change after line 34?

Detailed explanation-2: -lacking or deprived of something. He might of All justly bereft, sufficient. of a quantity that can fulfill a need or requirement.

Detailed explanation-3: -The major literary devices used in the poem are assonance, consonance, alliteration, imagery, enjambment, rhetorical question and symbolism.

Detailed explanation-4: -In “Upon the Burning of Our House, ” fire alludes to the day of judgement. When the sound of fire is heard, Bradstreet acknowledges that this preparedness is her goal, “That fearful sound of ‘Fire’ and ‘Fire! ‘ / Let no man know is my desire” (311).