Read these lines from "Winter-Time" by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Question

And tree and house, and hill and lake,

Are frosted like a wedding-cake.

What type of figurative language is used in the poem?

a simile
a metaphor
action personification
feeling personification

Answer 1

In the lines "And tree and house, and hill and lake, / Are frosted like a wedding-cake," the figurative language used is a simile. This is indicated by the use of "like" to compare the frosted appearance of the landscape to that of a wedding cake.