Which figure of speech are these lines an example of ? "The moan of doves in immemorial elms And…
Tennyson's lines 'The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees' are a classic example of Onomatopoeia, where the acoustic sounds of the words…
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Which figure of speech are these lines an example of ?
"The moan of doves in immemorial elms
And murmuring of innumerable bees."
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Tennyson's lines 'The moan of doves in immemorial elms, / And murmuring of innumerable bees' are a classic example of Onomatopoeia, where the acoustic sounds of the words ('moan', 'murmuring') echo the natural sounds they describe.
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