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.
The third option will be the one
For many months, the gigantic struggle then imminent had been painfully discernible to far-seeing men.
Which of these statements is true based on the information provided?
the war could not have been predicted.
the coming war was obvious to some people.
the struggle went on for many months.
watching the conflict was quite painful.
Answer:
From information provided, <u> the coming war was obvious to some people. </u>
Explanation:
Based on the sentence from the text, it is quite clear that the coming war was obvious to some people because according to the text, "the gigantic struggle then imminent had been painfully discernible to far-seeing men." which suggests that from the ongoing struggle, it was imminent that it would escalate to a war to "far-seeing men"
The sentence that contain simple subject would be : C. The rain came down in the sheets
A Simple subject is basically a subject that doing the action. In this case, the rain is doing 'came down'
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