State and explain the figures of speech:i. By thirty hills I hurry do

1.	State and explain the figures of speech:i. By thirty hills I hurry down.ii. By twenty thorpes, a little town An half a hundred bridges.iii. Till last by Philip’s farm I flow
Answer» i. Inversion: the prose order has been changed. The correct word order is ’I hurry down by thirty hills’. Alliteration: the sound of ‘h’ repeated in hills and hurry for poetic effect. ii. Hyperbole – the statement is exaggerated for a poetic effect. iii. Alliteration – the sound of ’f is repeated in ’farm’ and ’flow’ for a better poetic effect and also the word Philip as it has an ’f sound.

State and explain the figures of speech:i. By thirty hills I hurry down.ii. By twenty thorpes, a little town An half a hundred bridges.iii. Till last by Philip’s farm I flow

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i. Inversion: the prose order has been changed. The correct word order is ’I hurry down by thirty hills’. Alliteration: the sound of ‘h’ repeated in hills and hurry for poetic effect.

ii. Hyperbole – the statement is exaggerated for a poetic effect.

iii. Alliteration – the sound of ’f is repeated in ’farm’ and ’flow’ for a better poetic effect and also the word Philip as it has an ’f sound.

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