“Their garners with ripe grain” (line 2) contains an example of

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

The squirrel gloats o’er his accomplished hoard

The ants have brimmed their garners with ripe grain,

And honey-bees have stored

The sweets of summer in their luscious cells:

The swallows all have winged across the main:

But here the Autumn melancholy dwells,

And sighs her tearful spells

Amongst the sunless shadows of the plain.

Alone, alone.

Upon a mossy stone

She sits and reckons up the dead and gone,

With the last leaves for a love-rosary:

Whilst all the withered would looks drearily,

Like a dim picture of the drowned past

In the hushed mind’s mysterious far-away,

Doubtful what ghostly thing will steal the last

Into that distance, grey upon the grey.

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REET 2012 Level - 2 (Maths & Science) (Hindi/English/Sanskrit) Official Paper

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Answer 1

The correct answer is option 3 i.e. alliteration.

Explanation

Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).
Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.