Question

Shrivelled the slender stem figure of speech of this line

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Alliteration

2. Consonance

3. Assonance

Explanation:

The figures of speech used here include:

1. Alliteration- Alliteration is the repetition of sounds within a sentence, specifically, two consecutive words beginning with the same sound. It is important to notice that alliteration is sound-based and not spelling based. Here slender stem is an example of alliteration. However, shrivelled is not part of the alliteration because though it begins with the letter ‘s’, the sound produced is  not ‘s’, but ‘sh’.  

2. Consonance- It is the repetition of the same sound in rough succession. It is applicable, even if there is a word between the words with the same sound. Here, the example is slender stem.  The consonant 's' is repeated.

3. Assonance- Assonance refers to the repetition of the same vowel sound in a string of words. The spellings may or may not be the same.  

For instance, shriveled the slender  . Here the 'e' sound has been repeated. Note that the 'e' does not sound  the same in both places in slender. Therefore only one sound is an example of assonance, while the other is not.

Answer 2

The 'various figures of speech' used in the sentence 'shriveled the slender stem' are:

• Alliteration is words that sound similar. They are the 'repetition of initial consonant' sounds. The sound matters here and not the spelling. In the above sentence, slender stem, the starting consonant sound for the words sound similar.
• Consonance is the repetition of the same sound too. Here the figure of speech consonance is also used.  It is the repetition of the same sound like in 'slender stem'.
• Assonance is also used in that the sentence has a rhyming tone. When the same vowels are used it is said to be Assonance. The vowel 'e' is repeated in the sentence, 'shriveled slender stem'.