Discussion
Identify and name the poetic device used in 'waving so flower-like'.
Answer: C
The keyed device is personification.
'Waving so flower-like / When the winds blow!' shows the spray of the fountain waving, an action of living things, and being compared to a flower swaying in the wind. The key counts this as giving the fountain a living, human-like action, which is personification.
The phrase also contains a comparison with a flower, and strictly 'flower-like' makes it a simile, which is not among the options; that is why metaphor is the nearest rival, but a metaphor would state that the spray is a flower without 'like'. Alliteration needs repeated consonant sounds at the start of nearby words, and hyperbole needs exaggeration, which this line does not have.
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