Discussion
Name the figure of speech used in lines 3 and 4.
Answer: B
Lines 3 and 4 use personification.
Lines 3 and 4 read "A tree whose hungry mouth is prest / Against the earth's sweet flowing breast". The tree is given a mouth and hunger, and the earth is given a breast, so non-human things are described as living beings. That is personification.
A simile compares with 'like' or 'as', which these lines do not use. Metonymy replaces a thing with a closely associated name, and alliteration repeats initial sounds; neither is the device here.
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