Question

17.

The following question refers to the types of figurative language. The following excerpt from Robert Frost’s “Once by the Pacific” is an example of what?

The clouds were low and hairy in the skies
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.

Simile

Lyric poetry <-------------------?

Metaphor

Personification

Answer 1

metaphor,
in this case the clouds are being compared with something (locks), but they do not directly resemble each other -- not literally applicable