Point out the alliteration the following passages.

When the white feet of the baby beat across the grass. The

little white feet nod like white flowers

in a wind, They poise and run like puffs of wind

that pass, over water where the weeds are thinned.

(D.H. Lawrence: Baby Running Barefoot)

Give the negative and question forms of the following sentences.

a. You called me.

b. I can borrow his scooter.

c. He will agree.

d. You had a good breakfast.

e. You used to be frightened of him.

What meaning do the italicized words convey. Each word has a generally used meaning and in what shade of meaning it is used here. Explain

i. You are acquitted of laziness.

ii. He was an assassin of all good virtues.

iii. It would be a crime to send the child out in the cold.

iv. The food was condemned as unfit for humans.

v. She was a victim of the mother-in-law's tyranny.

Metapphor

Explain Repetition as a Rhetorical Device. Discuss various patterns of repetition.

Describe the metrical pattern in the following lines from Thomas Hardy's poem The Darkling Thrush.

I leaned upon a coppice gate

When frost was spectre-gray, And

Winter's dregs made desolate The

weakening eye of day.

syneodoche