MUSICIANS wrestle everywhere:
All day, among the crowded air,
I hear the silver strife;
And—waking long before the dawn—
Such transport breaks upon the town5
I think it that “new life!"
It is not bird, it has no nest;
Nor band, in brass and scarlet dressed,
Nor tambourine, nor man;
It is not hymn from pulpit read,10
The morning stars the treble led
On time’s first afternoon!
Some say it is the spheres at play!
Some say that bright majority
Of vanished dames and men!15
Some think it service in the place
Where we, with late, celestial face,
Please God, shall ascertain!
Some say it is the spheres at play!
Which kind of figurative language is used in line 13?
A)hyperbole
B)oxymoron
C)personification
D)simile
B?
Which figurative language device is used throughout lines 6-12?
A)satire
B)simile
C)metaphor
D)extended metaphor
D?
MUSICIANS wrestle everywhere:
All day, among the crowded air,
Which stylistic device is demonstrated in these lines from the poem?
A)end rhyme
B)onomatopoeia
C)alliteration
D)internal rhyme
C ?
Look up the different terms here:
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/
Re-think the first and third questions/answers.
The second is correct.
i think its A.
Yes, you are correct!
In line 13, the figurative language used is personification. The line "The morning stars the treble led" gives human-like qualities to the morning stars.
In lines 6-12, the figurative language device used is an extended metaphor. The poet compares the sounds of musicians to a wrestling match, emphasizing the intense and lively atmosphere.
And in the lines "MUSICIANS wrestle everywhere:
All day, among the crowded air," the stylistic device demonstrated is alliteration. The repetition of the "w" sound in "wrestle everywhere" and "among the crowded air" creates a rhythmic and musical effect.
Well done!
For the first question, the figurative language used in line 13 is personification. Personification is a figure of speech in which human qualities or characteristics are attributed to non-human things or abstract concepts. In this line, the morning stars are being described as leading the treble, which is a human activity.
For the second question, the figurative language device used throughout lines 6-12 is an extended metaphor. An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is developed over a series of lines or throughout a whole poem. In this case, the idea of the musicians wrestling everywhere is being used as a metaphor to represent the musical sounds and melodies that can be heard throughout the day.
And for the third question, the stylistic device demonstrated in the mentioned lines is alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. In this case, the repeated "w" sound in "wrestle" and "wherever," and the repeated "a" sound in "day" and "among" demonstrate alliteration.