Read this passage from the poem "Birches," by Robert Frost. Which figure of speech is used in the bold line? And life is too much like a pathless wood Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs Broken across it, and one eye is weeping From a twig's having lashed across it open. A. onomatopoeia B. metaphor C. personification D. simile

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Amelie Alexander

25 February, 23:35

Read this passage from the poem "Birches," by Robert Frost. Which figure of speech is used in the bold line? And life is too much like a pathless wood Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs Broken across it, and one eye is weeping From a twig's having lashed across it open. A. onomatopoeia B. metaphor C. personification D. simile

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Fletcher Clarke · Answer 1

The correct answer is D. simile.

Simile is a figure of speech which is used to compare two or more things using words such as like or as. As you can see in this example, life is too much like a pathless wood compares the word life with a pathless wood using the word like, which makes it a simile.