Question
Which figure of speech is used in this text?
So we beat on . . . borne back ceaselessly into the past.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
(1 point)
Responses
alliteration
alliteration
simile
simile
onomatopoeia
onomatopoeia
personification
So we beat on . . . borne back ceaselessly into the past.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
(1 point)
Responses
alliteration
alliteration
simile
simile
onomatopoeia
onomatopoeia
personification
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The figure of speech used in the text "So we beat on . . . borne back ceaselessly into the past" is **personification**. In this context, the phrase gives human-like qualities to abstract concepts like time and the past, suggesting that we are being carried or brought back by something.