I know my sister *ate* my apple pie!
Answer We are going to be leaving soon,"he said, get your shoes on
Explanation:
Answer:
PERSONIFICATION: Line 2: “lilting house”, lilting is an old school style of Gaelic singing, hence the house is personified.
Line 4 and 5: “Time” is personified as the speaker’s playmate.
Line 12: the sun has been personified and is defined as young.
Line 13: “time” is once again treated as the speaker’s friend.
Line 29: the farm is personified by the word “shoulder”.
ASSONANCE: Line 7: “trees” and “leaves” are vowel rhymes. They don’t rhyme perfectly, but the long “e” binds them together.
Line 8: “daisies” and “barley” are again vowel rhymes.
CONSONANCE: Line 9: “rivers” and “windfall” are consonant rhymes, where the “v” of rivers and “f” of windfall binds them together.
IMAGERY: Line 15: the speaker calls himself “green and golden” as a “huntsman and herdsman”.
ALLITERATION: Line 14: “mercy of his means”.
ANAPHORA: Line 21-23: the “and” is the word that these three lines begins with, this builds up the momentum of the poem.
SIMILE: Line 28: the farm is described as “a wanderer white/ with the dew”.
ALLUSION: Line 30: the call of Adam and Eve is a major allusion.
As the crow flies, its about 787 miles. Driving there, it's about 1,100 miles.
