I never saw a moor
by Emily Dickinson
What figure of speech does
Dickinson use in this line from
her poem?
I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks.
And what a wave must be.
Yet certain am I of the spot
A. simile
I never spoke with God,
Nor visited in Heaven:
Yet certain am I of the spot
As if the chart were given.
B. reverse word order
C. personification
D. hyperbole
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