In Frost's poem "Mending Wall," the lines "I see him there, / Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top / In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed" uses which poetic device? (1 point)

Question

• simile
• metaphor
• alliteration
• personification

Answer 1

The poetic device used in the lines "I see him there, / Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top / In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed" is a simile.