Question

Which of the following lines gives an example transferred epithet? *

1 point

(A) When the humid shadows hover over all the starry spheres and the melancholy darkness gently weeps.

(B) While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

(C) Once, when the good Saint Peter lived in the world below, and walked about it, preaching, just as he did, you know.

(D) Now, you shall build as the birds do, and shall get your scanty food by boring, and boring, and boring, all day in the hard, dry wood.​

Answer 1

Answer:

When the humid shadows hover Over all the starry spheres And the melancholy darkness Gently weeps in rainy tears, What a bliss to press the pillow Of a cottage-chamber bed And lie listening to the patter Of the soft rain overhead!