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Which 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?


parallelism




simile




metaphor




hyperbole

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Answer:

Hyperbole

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Answer: C) metaphor.

Explanation: a metaphor is a figure of speech that consists in making a direct comparison between elements that aren't obviously related, in order to create an image in the reader's mind. In the given lines from Sir Philip Sidney's sonnet, we can see an example of a metaphor, that compares Stella's eyes to bright beams. It isn't a simile because it doesn't use the words "like" or "as" to make the comparison, it doesn't use similar grammatical structures, so it isn't parallelism, and it isn't a hyperbole because it isn't exaggerating.

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