Question
Read "The Cricket Sang" by Emily Dickinson to answer the following prompt:
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go.
A vastness, as a neighbor, came, - A wisdom without face or name, A peace, as hemispheres at home, - And so the night became.
identify the one type of figurative language being used
The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go.
A vastness, as a neighbor, came, - A wisdom without face or name, A peace, as hemispheres at home, - And so the night became.
identify the one type of figurative language being used
Answers
GPT-4o mini
In "The Cricket Sang," one prominent type of figurative language used is personification. This is evident in the way the poem describes the twilight as standing "as strangers do / With hat in hand, polite and new." This personification gives twilight human characteristics, suggesting a sense of formality and social interaction, which enhances the imagery and emotional depth of the poem.