Question

Question: Use these lines from the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe to answer the question. What type of figurative language does Poe use in the second line of this excerpt?

Excerpt:

Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered—

Till I scarcely more than muttered “Other friends have flown before—

On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”

Then the bird said “Nevermore.”

✅ Answer Options (Responses)
The options are:

( ) hyperbole

( ) implied metaphor

( ) personification

( ) metaphor

Answer 1

( ) hyperbole

( ) implied metaphor

(X) personification

( ) metaphor

Correction: The best choice is "metaphor." Poe writes "Other friends have flown before," comparing friends to birds that fly away — a direct metaphor (not a simile).