Discussion
The figure of speech used in the lines 9-10 is :
Answer: D
On the key's reading, the figure of speech in lines 9-10 is irony.
Lines 9 and 10 read 'And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again.' The neighbours come together in order to put a barrier between them, so an act of meeting is used to keep apart. The sense is the opposite of what the meeting would suggest, which is the nature of irony.
There is no like or as, so it is not a simile, and the lines do not give a human quality to a thing or call one thing another, so they are not personification or metaphor. The reading rests on the gap between the meeting and its purpose; the key could not be checked against a published commentary.
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