Literary Devices

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Select the correct figure of speech used in the following sentence.

The rustling of the leaves and the gurgling of the streams are the dulcet sounds of nature.

Onomatopoeia

Anaphora

Enjambment

Synedoche

✅ Correct Option: 1

'Rustling' and 'gurgling' are words whose sounds imitate the noises they describe, which is onomatopoeia. Anaphora is repetition at the start of clauses, enjambment is a poetic run-on line, and synecdoche uses a part for the whole; none applies here.

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Select the correct figure of speech used in the following sentence.

The rustling of the leaves and the gurgling of the streams are the dulcet sounds of nature.