Question

Excerpted from "Hope is the Thing with Feathers"

by Emily Dickinson

[2] And sweetest—in the Gale—is heard—
And sore must be the storm—
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm—

[3] I've heard it in the chillest land—
And on the strangest Sea—
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb—of Me.




In the last stanza, the author writes that the little bird “never … asked a crumb of Me.”

Which type of figurative language is evident in these lines?


A. onomatopoeia
B. alliteration
C. assonance
D. personification

Answer 1

I believe it’s personification because she is saying that the bird (a non-human object) never asks “a crumb of me” which is a human like action