When i have seen by time's fell hand defaced. the rich proud cost of outwork buried age. is it simile- metaphor, personification or hyperbole

This excerpt comes from Sonnet 64, written by William Shakespeare.

The correct answer is

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced

The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;

This also tells us the theme of the sonnet, how fleeting life is and how powerless we are against Time, that is, death.

Personification is a figure of speech used in literature and especially in poetry, in which human emotions, qualities, and even the ability of speech, are given to non-human/inanimate things or abstract notions.

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it