Question

Select the correct answer. Which figurative language comes across most clearly in this excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "Preludes"? The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps. A. irony B. imagery C. repetition D. hyperbole E. euphemism

Answer 1

Answer:

B) Imagery.

Imagery is a literary device that consists in the use of figurative language or detailed descriptions in order to evoke the senses of the reader and to create a mental picture. In the given excerpt from T. S. Eliot's "Preludes" we can see a clear example of the use of imagery, in phrases like; "With smell of steaks in passageways," "Of withered leaves about your feet...