Question

"The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done" -
The figure of speech used by Walt Whitman in these lines is ------
(A) Oxymoron
(B) Personification
(C) Simile
(D) Metaphor

Answer 1

answer : option (d) Metaphor

explanation : " The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done " this line is taken from famous poem " O captain ! My captain ! " here poet " Walt Whitman " metaphorically compares late president Abraham Lincoln to "captain" of the "ship"

Here you should understand that, when we define a figure of speech as figurative language, then the poem includes metaphor and personification.

hence, option (d) is correct choice.

Answer 2

"The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done" -

The figure of speech used by Walt Whitman in these lines is Metaphor