Question

Which two types of figurative language are used in the following lines from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;

personification

alliteration

metaphor

simile

Answer 1

Personification and metaphor