Using the process of elimination, the answer could not be a simile due to the lack of "As" and "like" in the excerpt. Personification might not be the answer because the lonely man described in the text is a man, a person, and not an inanimate object. Let me know what the correct answer was!
In writing The General History Of Virginia, John Smith hoped to turn public opinion against the Native American population, by using inflated and heated rhetoric about them.
