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Read the following poem:

The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson



--------->He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,<-------
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Which type of figurative language is used in the bolded lines?

Alliteration
Metaphor
Personification
Simile

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Answer:

The type of figurative language used in the bolded lines is a metaphor.

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