Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” inc... - Solved MCQs & Answer

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Siegfried Sassoon’s “The Dragon and the Undying” includes the following lines: “Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilder’d seas.” Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect?

AMetonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare

BSimile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

CMetaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

DOnomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare

Correct answer

B. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

Explanation

The correct answer is Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature.

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