Imagery and Figurative Language in Tennyson’s “Morte d’Arthur”
Question 4 • *HSA 26-27 English IV A -IC
Which lines from the poem contain personification? Check all that apply.“So all day long the noise of battle roll’d”“A cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars”“Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern” “Old knights, and over them the sea-wind sang”“Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan”
Answer
A
“So all day long the noise of battle roll’d”
B
“A cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars”
C
“Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern”
D
“Old knights, and over them the sea-wind sang”
E
“Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan”