On "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas.
"Blind eyes could blaze like meteors” is an example of what literary device?
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Responses
allusion
metaphor
simile
personification
The correct answer is metaphor.
The phrase "Blind eyes could blaze like meteors" in "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas is an example of a metaphor.
To determine the literary device used in the line "Blind eyes could blaze like meteors" from Dylan Thomas' poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," we can analyze the different options: allusion, metaphor, simile, and personification.
1. Allusion: An allusion refers to a reference to another work or literary figure. In the given line, there is no direct reference to any other work or figure, so it is not an allusion.
2. Metaphor: A metaphor is a figure of speech that establishes a comparison between two unrelated things, without using "like" or "as." In the line, there is no direct comparison between blind eyes and meteors, so it is not a metaphor.
3. Simile: A simile is a figure of speech that establishes a comparison between two unrelated things using "like" or "as." In the line, the comparison is made by using "like" between blind eyes and meteors. Therefore, "Blind eyes could blaze like meteors" is an example of a simile.
4. Personification: Personification is when human qualities are given to inanimate objects or non-human entities. In the given line, there is no attribution of human qualities to blind eyes or meteors, so it is not personification.
Based on these explanations, the correct answer is simile.