Question

Which two types of figurative language are used in this excerpt from "The Cloud" by Percy Shelley?

Answer 1

From this stanza, personification is used. "The saunguine Sunrise with his meteor eyes." 

Another type of figurative language used is imagery.

Answer 2

Answer:

personification and symbolism.

Explanation:

Personification can be described as a figure of language in which an object or living being is personified by attributing human characteristics and qualities to it. In other words, whenever emotions, desires, sensations, physical gestures, and speech are presented in the context of being inanimate, the personification is said to have occurred. Through technique we describe inanimate things as human. In the excerpt above, the personification is presented in the line "The sanguine Sunrise, with his meteor eyes".

Metaphor is the figure of language that transports the word (or expression) from its literal meaning to the figurative sense. It is a comparison that is expressed without the terms that characterize a comparison. In metaphor, a word is used with the intention that an implicit meaning stands out in it and leads to the interpretation of what is being said. in the above excerpt, the metaphor can be seen in the lines "Leaps on the back of my sailing rack / When the morning star shines dead".