The Laburnum Top Literary Devices
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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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There is a parallel drawn between rain and music.