Question

Figure of speech in d expression 'colourless cracks'

Answer 1

The figure of speech used in the expression 'colourless cracks' is ‘alliteration. Alliteration is the use of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words that are close together, as ‘She sang a song of sixpence.’ Poets, dramatists, playwrights, and writers use this figure of speech to give poetic and literary effects to their writings.

Answer 2

The Figure of Speech used in the expression ‘colourless cracks’ is alliteration.

Figure of speech is used to refer to a word or a set of words that is used to mean something other than its actual meaning. An alliteration is a figure of speech that is s classified under the ‘sound device’ category and is used to represent a series of words that start with the same consonant.

Here, in the expression ‘colourless cracks’, the starting letter consonant that is same in both words is the letter 'c’.