Which figure of speech appears in these two lines: “Every morning she was asleep in my bed like a visitation, / the gentleness in her like antelope standing in the dawn mist.”

Question

Which figure of speech appears in these two lines: “Every morning she was asleep in my bed like a visitation, / the gentleness in her like antelope standing in the dawn mist.”

metaphor

allusion

simile

personification

Answer 1

The figure of speech that appears in those lines is simile. This is evident from the use of "like" to compare "her" to a "visitation" and the "gentleness in her" to "antelope standing in the dawn mist."