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The line from the given excerpt in which Robert Browning has used metaphor in is "The hillside's dew-pearled".
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- A metaphor is a commonly used figure of speech which is used to compare two things that have literally nothing in common.
- In the given excerpt, there are numerous comparisons that elucidate the relation between the various factors of nature and environment included in the poem
- In the mentioned line, the poet has attempted to compare worthless dewdrops to highly valuable pearls.
They would in fact find both because they found it frightening but also partly truthful which could also add hope.
Alice has experienced many odd things since falling down a rabbit hole and things continue to get weirder from there so it's only respectable that she's starting to think not everything is impossible. Even in this scene we experience another impossible thing; "n<span>ot much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw...wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains..." Notice how it says flower beds and fountains. If the door that led to this place was the size of a rat-hole what on earth could've gone through the hole and planted the garden and created a fountain? That is yet another impossible thought just from the passage. Alice has every right to think there must be a way to get inside, afterall, someone had to be inside to put everything there, right?
(Feel free to copy/paste this as your answer, I don't mind.)
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