Ah, love, let us be true
to one another! for the world, which seems
to lie before us like a land of dreams,
matthew arnold, "dover beach"
which type of figurative language is the author using in this excerpt from matthew arnold's "dover beach"?
a. simile
b. personification
c. oxymoron
d. allusion

The answer is: A. Simile

Simile is the explicit comparison of two different kinds of things to make a description more powerful and intense. It uses words such as like and as, and verb similar to resemble.

In excerpt from Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," the narrator is talking to his wife or lover, and makes use of simile to compare the world to a land of dreams.

the star of david was known as the jewish star : d

in   ¨and yet the books¨   by czelaw miloz the tone is positive since it tells us that when we touch a book, it starts to live and the perspective is in the third person and turns once into the first person. in "the rhinoceros" by eugene ionesco the tone is illogical and absurd   and the perspective is in the third person since it is a play.