The Faerie Queene
Which response correctly identifies the type of figurative language used to describe the sound of the dragon’s cry?
Read the passage from The Faerie Queene.
He cried, as raging seas are wont to roar,
When wintry storm his wrathful wreck does threat
The roaring billows beat the ragged shore,
As they the earth would shoulder from her seat,
And greedy gulf does gape, as he would eat
His neighbor element in his revenge:
Which response correctly identifies the type of figurative language used to describe the sound of the dragon’s cry?
A. onomatopoeia, incorporating words about the ocean’s roar that sound like the dragon’s cry
B. a simile, comparing the dragon’s cry to an ocean’s roar
C. a metaphor, describing the ocean’s roar so the reader will infer the sound of the dragon’s cry
D. an idiom, using a common colloquial phrase about the ocean’s roar to emphasize the dragon’s cry
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