Question Read "The Cricket Sang" by Emily Dickinson. 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 poem above uses simile?
choose 1 of these 4
the cricket sang
With hat in hand, polite and new.
The twilight stood as strangers do.
to stay as if or go.
which of the lines from "The Cricket sang" above uses metaphor?
With hat in hand, polite and new,
to stay as if, or go
The twilight stood as strangers do
The cricket sang
1 answer
The line "The twilight stood as strangers do" uses simile, while none of the lines use a metaphor.