Match each excerpt to the correct type of figurative language.
a. he is all pine and i am apple orchard.
(robert frost, “mending wall”)
b. mothers weeping, virgins screaming vainly for their slaughtered sires.
(william makepeace thackeray, “king canute”)
c. there lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
(alfred lord tennyson, “ulysses”)
d. be not like dumb, driven cattle!
(henry wadsworth longfellow, “a psalm of life”)
alliteration →
simile →
metaphor →
personification →