FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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alliteration
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imagery
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personification
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The figure of speech used in the line, “I gazed and gazed-but little thought” is alliteration.
Detailed explanation-2: -Alliteration: high o’er vales and Hills (line 2). Alliteration: When all at once (line 3). (Note that the w and o have the same consonant sound.) Personification/Metaphor: Comparison of daffodils to a crowd of people (lines 3-4).
Detailed explanation-3: -alliteration, in prosody, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables. Sometimes the repetition of initial vowel sounds (head rhyme) is also referred to as alliteration. As a poetic device, it is often discussed with assonance and consonance.
Detailed explanation-4: -The repetition of ‘gazed’ could show how much the speaker loved looking at the daffodils. The repetition of ‘dance’ shows the happiness and liveliness of the flowers.
Detailed explanation-5: -“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes . . .” “Burning bright, ” and “frame thy fearful symmetry, ” William Blake, Tyger. “The fair breeze blow, the white foam flew / The furrow followed free, ” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner. More items •28-Jun-2020