Question

Read the following line from "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Then answer the question that follows.

Was there no meaning in the live repose of the valley behind the mill, and which Homer or Shakespeare could not reform for me in words?
Which figurative language device is present in this line?
Alliteration
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Simile

Answer 1

Allusions

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Allusion

Alliteration= occurrence of a letter, we don’t have that.
Allusion=expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly. ‘ an allusion to Shakespeare’
Onomatopoeia=sound associated ‘ sizzle’
Simile= needs words like or as