Question

What figure of speech is used in the following line of poetry from Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts”?

In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away…  

A. allegory
B. allusion
C. personification
D. metaphor

Answer 1

@nevermind_justschool

Answer 2

I think it's A :o

Answer 3

al·le·go·ry
ˈaləˌɡôrē/
noun
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.