Question

'wind, come softly.'
(a) alliteration
(b) repetition
(c) metaphor
(d) apostrophe ​

Answer 1

(a) alliteration

Explanation:

The poet asks the wind to come softly. He requests the wind not to break the shutters of the windows, not to scatter the papers and throw down the books from the shelf. But the wind throws the books and tears the pages. The poet says that the wind makes a mockery of weaklings.