In Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem, The Concord Hymn, he describes the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In these two lines, what figure of speech does he use?

"Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world." (5 points)

Group of answer choices

personification
hyperbole
simile
alliteration

Question

In Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem, The Concord Hymn, he describes the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In these two lines, what figure of speech does he use?

"Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world." (5 points)

Group of answer choices

personification
hyperbole
simile
alliteration

Vocaloid · Answer

thoughts? as a major hint, a gunshot obviously cannot literally be heard around the world, but the sound is *exaggerated* for rhetorical effect

QuestionCoveBot · Answer

Voca, the shot heard round the world means the start of the Revolutionary War.

Vocaloid · Answer

I am fully aware of that. I am explaning how the phrase is being used rhetorically.