Question

All Figure of speech in the poem Rain on the Roof.

Answer 1

alliteration figure of speech

Answer 2

The Figures of speech in the poem ‘Rain on the Roof’ are mainly visual imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, personification.

EXPLANATION:

In the poem ‘Rain on the Roof’, the poem begins with visual imagery with the line ‘When the humid shadows hover.’

There is alliteration in ‘starry sphere’, ‘press the pillow,’ Into busy being start,.

There is onomatopoeia in the words ‘patter’, ‘echo’.

Hyperbole is there in the phrases ‘And a thousand recollections’, ‘And a thousand dreamy fancies’. Personification is noticed in ‘Weave their air-threads into woof’. The dreams and recollections are personifies as ‘their’.

Metonymy is observed in ‘starry spheres’ as the phrase signifies planets. Transferred epithet is observed in ‘melancholy darkness’. Melancholy is a human trait that has been transferred to darkness.