The clouds they were grey and the autumn winds blew,
and denise mcnair brought the number to two.
the falcon of death was a creature they knew,
and the choirs kept singing of freedom,
which type of figurative language does the bolded part of the stanza use?
simile
personification
imagery
metaphor

The answer is metaphor it comparing the falcon to death key word:Of

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.