Question

Read the passage excerpt from “the daffodils”

the underlined sections of text are examples of ____

Answer 1

• "Fluttering and dancing in the breeze"

Kinesthetic imagery= Literary device used to express the movement or action of an object or an individual. The words "fluttering" and "dancing" suggest the idea of the natural movement of the daffodils. This was a device very commonly used by Wordsworth and other Romantic poets.

Personafication= This literary device makes an object have human attributes. In this poem we see that the flowers are "dancing", this means that the flowers have here the human capacity to dance.

• "Continuous as the starts that shine and twinkle on the milky way"

Similie= Literary device used to show a comparison with the use of the words "like" or "as". In this case, Wordsworth is comparing the flowers to the stars.

• "Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance"

Hyperbole= This happens when the author exaggerates, in this poem, the author says "ten thousand I saw at a glance", this is clearly an exaggeration.

Inversion= The author inverts the order of words, the sentence doesn't begin with the subject but with the amount of flowers, then the verb "saw" and then the subject, this is done like this because the emphasis is on the amount of flowers and not on the subject.

Personification= "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" This is another instance of personification in as much as the flowers acquire human trarts, for example, having a head and dancing.

Answer 2

"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", more commonly known as "Daffodils", is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. By analyzing the underlined sections of text provided in the excerpt of this poem it could be possible to say that they are examples of:

1. Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Feminine rhyme, which is a term used in prosody to refer to a line ending in a stressless syllable.

2. Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way.

Simile, that is a figure of speech that directly compares two things, using explicitly connecting words such as like, as, so, or verbs such as resemble.

3. Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

Inversion, also called anastrophe, which refers to the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence.