What are the literary devices in the poem 'Rain on the Roof'
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Alliteration is also the poetic device which is used in the poem, 'rain on the roof'. For example: l sound is repeated in the line 'lie listening'
Literary devices used in the poem "Rain on the Roof" are:
Alliteration: Alliteration is a literary device, repetition of the consonants in row, sound stressing syllable of a phrase.
Repetition of the letter ‘L’ in the words ‘lie listening’.
Transferred epithet: transferred epithets refers to the figure of speech in which adjective or an epithet qualifies a noun other than the thing or person.
‘Melancholy darkness’ as the sadness of a person in dark is transferred to the ‘darkness.’
Personification: Personification is the figure of which attribute a human quality to an abstract figure. In other words, personification refers to attributing human characteristics to anything non-human.
In the fourth line ‘shedding tears’ is personified as the ‘rains’.