Question

What literary device is used in these lines:

“The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures; tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil”

A)metaphor
B)Oxymoron
C)paradox
D)simile

Answer 1

I think its simile

Step-by-step explanation:

cause sleeping and dead are pictures which could mean no harm or not thinking the dead are people anymore.