Question

Which literary device does Coleridge use in the lines “Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail?”

a. simile
b. alliteration
c. paradox
d. personification

Answer 1

Which literary device does Coleridge use in the lines “Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail?”

simile

Answer 2

Answer: a. simile

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two similar things, or two things that share a particular characteristic. Similes are usually recognized by the use of connecting words, such as "like." In this case, when Coleridge refers to "huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail," he is using a simile, as he is directly comparing two things that have something in common.