Answer:
Read your following passage of figurative language from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Then, see the answers below:
1. Which figurative language device is used in this passage?
“He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care.”
2. Which figurative language device is used in this passage?
“I was now about to form another being of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate and delight, for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness.”
3. Which figurative language device is used in this passage?
"Despair had indeed almost secured her prey, and I should soon have sunk beneath this misery."
- Personification (Correct)
Explanation:
1. It is a simile because "like" is used to compare two, unlike ideas. "His concern for a guarding spirit" By way of explanation, this simile likens Frankenstein's love and compassion for Caroline to that of a good spirit protecting her, as in the phrase "guardian angel."
2. Hyperbole is an exaggeration, usually, one that goes too far, that is used to emphasize a point. It's common to say something like "I'm freezing to death" when you're really chilly. As a result, this is not accurate, but it has a more forceful ring to it.
3. Personification is the compared to human traits to nonhuman or abstract entities. Some examples of such characteristics include the physical and emotional needs that humans have. i.e., "My bird is so cute and talks all the time. The bird is really a statue."