Question 1 • Common Core ELA 11 - ELA3011 IC
“I’m stone” and “I’m flesh” use one thing to describe the speaker as another, suggesting qualities such as toughness and vulnerability. This is a metaphor because it makes a direct comparison without using “like” or “as.” It is not personification, since the lines do not give human traits to something nonhuman.
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