Question

He was like a wingspan who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow." -George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859

The quote above is an example of a(n):
A. personification
B. simile
C. alliteration

D. metaphor

Answer 1

i know a is wrong

Answer 2

What do you think it is?

Answer 3

Since you know its not a

Answer 4

i think its c

Answer 5

i put a and got it wrong

Answer 6

Alliteration: the repetition of a particular sound
So its not C

Answer 7

Metaphor: literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.
Simile: Comparing two things using like or as.

Answer 8

Metaphors DO NOT us like or as.

Answer 9

so is it a smile

Answer 10

Yeah.

Answer 11

okay thank u