Discussion
Which literary device has been used in stanza 2 to enhance the beauty of the lines?
Answer: A
The device is alliteration.
Stanza 2 reads 'Into the moonlight, / Whiter than snow, / Waving so flower-like / When the winds blow!'. The sound w is repeated in 'Whiter', 'Waving', 'When' and 'winds', which gives the lines their soft, rippling sound. That repetition of an initial consonant is alliteration.
Oxymoron joins two opposite ideas, and no pair like that appears. A transferred epithet gives an adjective to the wrong noun, which is not the case here. Anaphora is the repeated opening of lines; the poem repeats 'Into the' at the start of stanzas, but not within stanza 2's lines, so it does not describe this stanza.
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