Question

figure of speech in poem top of laburnum ​

Answer 1

Answer:

The poem “The Laburnum Top” is rich with rhetoeical devices.

Alliteration: “September sunlight”.

Simile: “…sleek as a lizard”. (Explicit comparison between the goldfinch and a lizard).

Metaphor: “A machine…of chitterings”, “It is the engine of her family”.(The goldfinch's family is compared to a machine/engine). “Her barred face identity mask”.(The shadow on the bird's face is compared to an identity mask).

Personification: “the whole tree trembles and thrills”. (The tree is personified.)

Transferred epithet: “Her barred face identity mask”. (The flowers of the Laburnum plant are barred. But here it is placed before the bird's face.)