Question

Which literary device does Sir Philip Sidney use in these lines from his sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella?

When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes,
In colour black why wrapp’d she beams so bright?
A. parallelism
B. simile
C. metaphor
D. hyperbole

Answer 1

c metaphor

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Answer 2

Sidney used C. Metaphor, to describe Stella's eyes. He describes them as black and says that they beam bright, despite black not containing light with which to beam. The metaphor is that her eyes are bright beams and were a masterpiece of Nature.