What is the most prominent figurative language element in this excerpt from the poem “The First Snowfall” by James Russell Lowell?

Every pine and fir and hemlock
Wore ermine too dear for an earl,
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
Was ridged inch deep with pearl.

Question

What is the most prominent figurative language element in this excerpt from the poem “The First Snowfall” by James Russell Lowell?

Every pine and fir and hemlock
Wore ermine too dear for an earl, 
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
Was ridged inch deep with pearl.

anonymous · Answer

simile

alliteration

synecdoche

personification

hyperbole

anonymous · Answer

@DezeliA @Jadeishere

anonymous · Answer

its not a simile...

jadeishere · Answer

It's a synecdoche

anonymous · Answer

I think its synecdoche and it doesn't like or as so it cant be a simile

jadeishere · Answer

That or personification, but I don't think so. Those are your two most likely answers >.<

anonymous · Answer

http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/synecdocheterm.htm

anonymous · Answer

i think its synecdoche

anonymous · Answer

It was synecdoche

What is the meter pattern in these lines from "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley?

Imagination! who can sing thy force?
Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?

trochaic tetrameter

iambic pentameter

spondaic hexameter

anapestic pentameter

iambic hexameter

anonymous · Answer

I would say iambic hexameter, but I am not for sure on that one