Imagery and Figurative Language in Tennyson's "Morte d'Arthur"

Question 1

adaptation

Answer 1

a reworking of a story into a new form

Question 2

figurative language

Answer 2

language that explains something beyond its literal meaning

Question 3

imagery

Answer 3

language that creates a sensory experience for the reader

Question 4

metaphor

Answer 4

a comparison of two unlike things without using “like” or “as”

Question 5

personification

Answer 5

the lending of human qualities to animals, objects, or abstract concepts

Question 6

simile

Answer 6

a comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”