Question

What stylistic element has been used in this sentence from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamp-light that had served them to pore over many ponderous books.


irony


imagery


personification


simile

Answer 1

simile

Step-by-step explanation:

A simile makes a comparison between two different things with the help of the words “like” or “as.

The man's countenance was like that of a scholar: scholar-like visage.