Question

The figure of speech used in the line - 'slipping softly through
the sky' is​

Answer 1

Alliteration(slipping softly)

Answer 2

Alliteration

Figure of speech

• A figure of speech, also known as a rhetorical figure, is a term or phrase that highlights a purposeful divergence from ordinary language usage in order to achieve a rhetorical impact.

• A figure of speech is a term or phrase with a meaning other than its exact definition.

• It boosts to the poem's beauty.

• some common figures of speech are alliteration, apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metonymy, personification,  simile etc.

Alliteration

Alliteration is defined in literature as the prominent repeating of similar starting consonant sounds in subsequent or closely connected syllables within a series of words, even if they are written differently.