Question

The laburnum top is silent, quite still In the afternoon yellow September sunlight, A few leaves yellowing, all its seeds fallen.... Find the figure of speech of the last line

Answer 1

here are all devices used in the poetry:

1. Alliteration - repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or more consecutive words. The instances of alliteration in the poem are as follows-

September sunlight

tree trembles

 2. Simile – comparison between two things using like or as.

Sleek as a lizard

 3. Metaphor – an indirect comparison between two things. Generally, a quality is compared.

“She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up” - the noise created by the movement of the birds is compared to the machine’s noise

“It is the engine of her family.”

“Showing her barred face identity mask”

 4. Personification – the attribution of personal nature characteristics to something non-human

The whole tree trembles and thrills.

 5. Transferred Epithet – the figure of speech where the adverb is transferred to another noun

her barred face identity mask

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Answer 2

The figure of speech used in the above sentence is Alliteration .

" September sunlight " is the alliteration .

• A figure of speech ( or poetic device ) is a word or phrase which used in a non-literal sense for linguistic or authentic effect.

• Alliteration is a figure of speech where there is an occurrence of the same letter/ sound (or pronunciation ) at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• Other examples of figure of speech are : Irony , metaphor, simile , oxymoron , personification etc.

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