Question

Read the excerpt from "‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers -” by Emily Dickinson.

"Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.

The first line of the poem "’Hope’ is the thing with feathers” is an example of which type of figurative language?

personification
metaphor
ambiguity
enjambment

Answer 1

personification

Step-by-step explanation:

personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

i might be wrong because it could also be a metaphor because hope is being compared to being a thing with feathers by using "is" and not "like or as" like a simile. Hope this helps