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.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Onomatopoeia
"Rustling" imitates the soft sound of moving leaves, and "gurgling" imitates the sound of water flowing over stones.
| Option | What it is | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Onomatopoeia (answer) | Onomatopoeia is the use of words whose sound imitates the sound they describe (buzz, hiss, splash). | The bees buzzed among the flowers. |
| (2) Anaphora | the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or lines. No opening word is repeated here. | Every day, every night, every hour, she thought of home. |
| (3) Enjambment | the running on of a sentence from one line of poetry into the next without a pause at the end of the line. The given sentence is prose, not verse. | – |
| (4) Synecdoche | Synecdoche uses a part to stand for the whole, or the whole for a part. The sentence has no such substitution. In "All hands on deck", for instance, "hands" stands for sailors. | The farmer hired ten extra hands for the harvest. |