Directions: Read the poem given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate option. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may forever tarry. Identify the figure of speech used in: 'The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun'.
The figure of speech used in the line "The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun" is a metaphor, which is correctly identified as Option 3. A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things by stating that one is the other, without using "like" or "as." In this line, the sun is directly compared to "the glorious lamp of heaven," suggesting that the…Read More
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