Question

Instructions: Select the correct answer. What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from James Joyce's "The Dead"?

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling.
metaphor alliteration hyperbole euphemism

Answer 1

your answer will be B) Alliteration. it is alliteration because it uses words starting with the same letters close together like: swooned, slowly, snow and falling, faintly