Then i felt i like some watcher of the skies/ when a new planet swims into his ken. this excerpt from on first looking into chapmans homer is an example of a(n)

The excerpt is an example of a simile.

A simile is a figurative language that aims to make the writing more colorful and interesting by using comparisons to describe an event, someone, a trait, a place, etc. And we can normally identify a simile because it has the words "like", "as" and "as in" in the sentence.

In the excerpt, the narrator uses this type of figurative language as he or she is comparing him or her self as a "watcher of the sky", and we can know for sure that it is not an example of hyperbole or metaphor because the sentence has the distinctive "like" of similes.

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.