- 'The Brook' by Lord Tennyson is packed with Literary Devices. A List of such evices employed by Tennyson is given below:
- ‘I” – The brook is personified
- ‘I` ................`(Line – 1) & ‘I...............`(Line – 2) of the first stanza is an example of Anaphora (Anaphora is the repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech)
- “Sudden sally” (Alliteration)
- “Bicker” – (onomatopoeia)
- Twenty thorpes (Alliteration)
- By .............................(Line – 1) & By.............. (Line -3) – Stanza 2- Repetition
- Men may (Alliteration)
- Chatter`, ‘trebles`, ‘babble` - onomatopoeia.
- “fairly foreland” and ”with willow weed” – Alliteration
- Chatter – Onomatopoeia
- chatter, chatter ; men may –Alliteration
- .......................and in and out – Antithesis (Antithesis is a figure of speech opposing or contrasting ideas are placed closed to each other. It brings out of the contrast in the ideas)
- .........about and – Alliteration
- here and there – Antithesis
- foamy flake, golden gravel –Alliteration
- All along, men may – Alliteration
- Men may – Repetition
- Come ................go – Antithesis.
- I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance – Asyndeton (is a figure of speech in which one or several conjunctions are omitted from a series of related clauses)
- Skimming swallows – sandy shallows – Alliteration
- Murmur – Onomatopoeia.
- And out again I curve and flow – Inversion ( literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect )
- Men…may – Alliteration
- Men… may – Repetition
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