Question

Read "The Cricket Sang" by Emily Dickinson. Use the poem to answer the question.


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.



Which of the following lines from "The Cricket Sang" above uses metaphor?

(2 points)
Responses

With hat in hand, polite and new,
With hat in hand, polite and new,

The cricket sang,
The cricket sang,

To stay as if, or go.
To stay as if, or go.

The twilight stood as strangers do
The twilight stood as strangers do
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Answer 1

"The twilight stood as strangers do"

Explanation: this line compares "twilight" to "strangers" (showing it behaving like a person), which is a figurative comparison—i.e., a metaphorical (simile-like) image attributing human qualities to twilight.