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Question 2 Read the following lines from "The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost. Part of a moon was falling down the west, Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills. What figure of speech is used
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Read the following lines from "The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost.
Part of a moon was falling down the west,
Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills.
What figure of speech is used in these lines?
metaphor
personification
hyperbole
simile

User Vijay Sali
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I think it would be hyperbole. It’s exaggerating the actions of the moon.
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