In this excerpt from "the first snowfall" by james russell lowell, which lines contain figurative language? the snow had begun in the gloaming, and busily all the night had been heaping field and highway with a silence deep and white. every pine and fir and hemlock wore ermine too dear for an earl, and the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl. from sheds new-roofed with carrara came chanticleer's muffled crow, the stiff rails softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow. i stood and watched by the window the noiseless work of the sky, and the sudden flurries of snowbirds, like brown leaves whirling by.

first paragraph (and busy all the night ,with a silence deep and white )

union blockade

explanation:

the union blockade in the american civil war was a naval strategy by the united states to prevent the confederacy from trading.

the blockade was proclaimed by president abraham lincoln in april 1861, and required the monitoring of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of atlantic and gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably new orleans and mobile. those blockade runners fast enough to evade the union navy could only carry a small fraction of the supplies needed. they were operated largely by british citizens, making use of neutral ports such as havana, nassau and bermuda. the union commissioned around 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war.

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