Read the passage from "To Autumn."
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft,
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
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Which best identifies and interprets the use of the underlined poetic device? (The light wind lives or dies is the poetic device)
A. Simile; the wind is like an unhealthy river in the summer
B. Metaphor; the wind is blowing hard enough to cry mournfully
C. Imagery; the fluttering gnats appeal to the reader's sense of smell
D. Personification; The stillness and gusts of the wind are described as its life and death