Question

Find the figure of speech. (i)- In leaves no step had trodden black​

Answer 1

Answer:

The phrase is an excerpt from Robert Frost's poem, The Road Not Taken, “And both (roads) that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black.” ... Both roads are covered with leaves that have not turned black, because they have not been crushed or flattened by someone one walking on them.

Answer 2

SOLUTION:-

figure of speech is an indirect way of communicating an idea. Many figures of speech are not meant to be understood exactly as they are said: they are not literal, factual statements. They use indirect language, and mean something different from ordinary language.

Linguists call these figures of speech "tropes"—a play on words, using words in a way that is different from its accepted literal or normal form. DiYanni wrote: "Rhetoricians have catalogued more than 250 different figures of speech, expressions or ways of using words in a nonliteral sense

Metaphors are very common examples. A common figure of speech is to say that someone "threw down the gauntlet". This does not mean that a person threw a protective wrist-covering down on the ground. Instead, it usually means that the person issued a public challenge to another person .