Question

(THE SNAKE)

read the extract and answer the question that follows:

"In The Deep strange-scented shade of a great dark carob tree.

I came down the steps with my pitcher

And must wait, must stand and wait

For there he was at the trough before me."



1. identify the figure of speech in line 1.

Answer 1

the figure of speech in first line is 'Alliteration'.
it is in phrase strange- scented shade

Answer 2

Its transferred epithet