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the following question refers to the types of figurative language. the following excerpt from robert frost’s “once by the pacific” is an example of what?

the clouds were low and hairy in the skies
like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.

simile

lyric poetry <

metaphor

personification

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. isn’t this like condemning socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? isn’t this like condemning jesus because his unique god consciousness and never ceasing devotion to god’s will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? what rhetorical technique does martin luther king employ in this excerpt from “letter from birmingham jail”? select all that apply. allusion extended metaphor figurative language simile