Discussion
The figure of speech used in the phrase 'and whirls the mills' is :
Answer: C
On the key's reading, the figure of speech in 'and whirls the mills' is onomatopoeia.
The verb 'whirls' is taken to echo the sound and motion of turning, which is how the key reads it. The question is hard to settle, because the line is part of a stanza in which the wind 'walks on the water' and 'talks to itself', which is personification, and a reader may feel that the phrase quoted belongs with that. The words alone do not prove either reading, and the key's choice could not be confirmed from a reference source.
There is no like or as, so it is not a simile, and the phrase does not use a part for a whole, so it is not synecdoche.
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