What literary Device is this excerpt and why? “When is April the sweet showers for that pier smartest route to the route and all and bathe every vein and liquor that has power to generate therin and sire the flower;”

Alliteration, Imagery.

Explanation:

In the given lines from 'General Prologue to Canterbury Tales', Chaucer employs imagery as well as alliteration to depict the time of the year when holy pilgrimage takes place i.e. 'April.'

Through the use of imagery, he offers a beautiful description of April during Springtime through vivid images of peace and tranquility. It helps the author to provide a sensory experience to the readers through which they can visualize the renewal brought by spring's 'sweet showers' after the 'dry' March. It helps the readers to imagine the wonderful time during which the pilgrims go for holy pilgrimage. The use of alliteration in 'sweet showers' gathers readers' attention and enhances the impact and serenity brought by spring.

d. therefore pilots wisely train these cubs by various strategic tricks to look danger in the face a little more calmly.

c or d they are the same

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .