Question

Which figurative language device do you see in the stanza? (choose one) In the silence he has heard Talking bee and ladybird, And the butterfly has flown O'er him as he lay alone. Group of answer choices onomatopoeia alliteration metaphor simile

Answer 1

The figurative language used in the stanza is: alliteration.

Step-by-step explanation:

Alliteration is a literary device that repeats consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to each other in a structure. A simple example would be a well-known tongue twister: She sells seashells by the seashore (the /s/ sound is repeated).

In the stanza we are analyzing here, alliteration takes place when the author repeats the sound represented by the letter "h":

In the silence he has heard

We have three words in a row beginning with the same consonant sound. Thus, we have an alliteration.

The stanza is an excerpt from the poem "The D.um.b Soldier," by Robert Louis Stevenson.