ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Simile. A Simile is a literary device in with a word or phrase is used to compare or describe another thing. In Simile one thing is like the other, so the word “like” or “as” is used to show the comparison between two things.

Detailed explanation-2: -"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is one of the most famous and best-loved poems written in the English language. It was composed by Romantic poet William Wordsworth around 1804, though he subsequently revised it-the final and most familiar version of the poem was published in 1815.

Detailed explanation-3: -Personification is also used in the 6 line “Fluttering and dancing in the breeze”-here as the daffodils are said to be dancing in the breeze, they referred to as a person. The poet personified daffodils are dancing as a man.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lines 1-2: The beginning of the poem makes a simile between the speaker’s wandering and the “lonely” distant movements of a single cloud. Clouds can’t be lonely, so we have another example of personification.

Detailed explanation-5: -Metaphor is one type of figurative language used by William Wordsworth in his poem because this type of figurative language is often used in various literary works that aim to express meaning with an emphasis on the impression the poet wants to convey.