Question

ASAP  figurative language!!!!!!!

 Sir Ralph the Rover sail’d away, He scour’d the seas for many a day; And now grown rich with plunder’d store, He steers his course for Scotland’s shore. So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky, They cannot see the sun on high; The wind hath blown a gale all day, At evening it hath died away. Which is the best example of figurative language in the passage ?

A. Sir Ralph the Rover sail’d away
B. So thick a haze o’erspreads the sky
c. He steers his course for Scotland’s shore
d.At evening it hath died away.

Answer 1

D because it's using personification as if a hath could die

Answer 2

Figurative language is the use of words in a way that they have a strong impact on the reader. One of the figurative language strategies is the use of personification in which an object or an animal is given human characteristics. In this case, the best example of figurative language in the passage is D: At evening it hath died away. The reference of the pronoun it in the latter sentence is not clear, it can refer to the sun or to the haze. Either way, none the sun or the haze can die; they only dissapear or they move away, but the action of dying is human; therefore, this sentence represents a personification.