Please help!

Which describes the figurative language that James Russell Lowell uses in the first stanza of "Life"?

A.
He uses a simile to inject humor into a piece about life and death.

B.
He uses personification to make the concept of life seem like a human being.

C.
He uses a metaphor that suggests a unique way of imagining the shortness of life.

D.
He uses a Biblical allusion to suggest value of every human life.

I know that A is incorrect since he doesn't use similes.

Question

Please help!




Which describes the figurative language that James Russell Lowell uses in the first stanza of "Life"?  
 
  


  

  A. 
  He uses a simile to inject humor into a piece about life and death.   
    


  

  B. 
  He uses personification to make the concept of life seem like a human being.   
    


  

  C. 
  He uses a metaphor that suggests a unique way of imagining the shortness of life.   
    


  

  D. 
  He uses a Biblical allusion to suggest value of every human life.   
  

I know that A is incorrect since he doesn't use similes.

anonymous · Answer

Life is a leaf of paper white
Whereon each one of us may write
His word or two; and the comes night.

Though thou have time
But for a line, be that sublime
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

whereon: upon which

but for: for only

sublime: lofty, grand: inspiring awe and wonder

aklabeast · Answer

I think the answer is C because as soon as the poem starts a simile is used. Another reason is because personification is when the author takes something that is nonhuman and gives it human like traits. I don't think D because I didn't see a bible allusion.