"Thro' scudding drifts, the rainy Hyades / Vext the dim sea"... Identify the figure of speech employed here.
Personification
In this line from Tennyson's 'Ulysses', the constellation Hyades is given the human ability to 'vex' or trouble the sea, attributing a human action to a non-human entity. This is an example of Personification, hence option (C) is correct.
Important Questions from Figure of speech/Literary Devices
Identify the figure of speech in the following statement.
It was the best of times, It was the worst of times.
Identify the figure of speech in the following statement.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing.
Using softer sounding words to avoid bluntness is called
The statement, “If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times________” is an example of
A poem consisting of four lines, or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit
