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What literary device does Sir Philip Sidney use in these lines from his sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella?

When Nature made her chief work, Stella's eyes,
In colour black why wrapp'd she beams so bright?

A. Parallelism
B. Simile
C. Metaphor
D. Hyperbole

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the correct answer is C a metaphor
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The answer is C. Metaphor
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