He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands,
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls;
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Which type of figurative language is used in this description of the eagle: "He clasps the crag with crooked hands?"

Question

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands,
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; 
He watches from his mountain walls;
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Which type of figurative language is used in this description of the eagle: "He clasps the crag with crooked hands?"

anonymous · Answer

metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
simile

texaschic101 · Answer

personification is when you give something that is not human...you give them human characteristics. Have you ever seen an eagle with crooked hands ??....that would be a sight...lol

anonymous · Answer

no hahah

tjbrew · Answer

metaphor:
noun
noun: metaphor; plural noun: metaphors

    a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
    "“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors"
    synonyms:	figure of speech, image, trope, analogy, comparison, symbol, word painting/picture
    "the profusion of metaphors in her everyday speech has gotten pretty tiresome"
        a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract.
        "the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering"

onomatopoeia:

noun
noun: onomatopoeia

    the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).
        the use of onomatopoeia for rhetorical effect.

personification:
noun
noun: personification

    the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
        a figure intended to represent an abstract quality.
        plural noun: personifications
        "the design on the franc shows Marianne, the personification of the French republic"
        synonyms:	embodiment, incarnation, epitome, quintessence, essence, type, symbol, soul, model, exemplification, exemplar, image, representation
        "Foote is the personification of heroism"
        a person, animal, or object regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing.
        "he was the very personification of British pluck and diplomacy"

simile:
 a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something by comparing it with someone or something else that is similar