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

D. hyperbole

Answer 2

Option C (Metaphor) is the correct answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

The metaphor seems to be a speech-like representation that tends to make allows overt, made clear, or concealed comparison between different items that seem to be completely unconnected but experience similar features.

• It would not have been simile even though a similar would use the same thing as or even like.
• This will not be parallelism, even though it does not include identical phrases as well as clauses.
• This wouldn't be hyperbole, since the intent of hyperbole was never to take literally, as well as too ridiculous or overkill.

So that the above would be the appropriate answer.