Identify the figure of speech in the following lines - The moan of doves in immemorial elms. And…
In Tennyson's famous lines ('The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees'), words like 'moan' and 'murmuring' imitate the actual natural sounds…
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Identify the figure of speech in the following lines -
The moan of doves in immemorial elms.
And murmuring of innumerable bees.
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In Tennyson's famous lines ('The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees'), words like 'moan' and 'murmuring' imitate the actual natural sounds they describe, exemplifying 'Onomatopoeia'.
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