Question

Sitting in a porchway cool,
Sunlight, I see, dying fast,
( identify the figure of speech )​

Answer 1

It Alliteration

Explanation:

Because ' S ' is repeated

Answer 2

The figure of speech used here is "Transferred Epithet".

About figures of speech:

• Figures of speech are decorative use of language to enhance the beauty of conveying ideas.
• It is mainly used in poetry by poets for adorning.
• Some of the examples are simile, metaphor, pun, onomatopoeia, synecdoche, etc.,
• Here the figure of speech used is 'transferred epithet'. It means that a word is placed away from its related words and still talks about that.
• In other words, here, we have ''sitting in a porchway cool, Sunlight''. sunlight cannot sit cool. But we have "I see". So 'I' is transferred to "sitting...cool". Though it is away, it is related to those words.
• Similarly, we have "Sunlight, I see, dying fat". Again, "dying fast" does not refer to the poet "I", but it is related to "Sunlight". This is again a transferred epithet.
• The figure of speech used here is "Transferred Epithet".