Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

As I read away, I was Rapunzel, or the Goose Girl or the Princess Labam in one of the Thousand and One Nights who mounted the roof of her palace every night and of her own radiance faithfully lighted the whole city just by reposing there, and I daydreamed I could light Davis School from across the street.

In the excerpt above, what form of figurative language does the author use?

metaphor
hyperbole
imagery
onomatopoeia

Answer 1

Imagery

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Answer 2

Imagery

Step-by-step explanation:

Imagery is a figurative language that uses a vivid and descriptive language that evoke pictures in our minds and appeal to our senses of sight, hearing, smell, touch or taste. In the excerpt, phrases like “her own radiance faithfully lighted the whole city,” and “I could light Davis School from across the street” creates a mental picture and appeals to the sense of sight. It is an example of imagery.