With smoke of the flood, The dead leaves are varnished With color like blood, A treacherous smiler 5 With teeth white as milk, A savage beguiler In sheathings of silk, The sea creeps to pillage, She leaps on her prey; 10 A child of the village Was murdered to-day. She came up to meet him In a smooth golden cloak, She choked him and beat him 15 To death, for a joke. Her bright locks were tangled, She shouted for joy, With one hand she strangled A strong little boy. 20 Now in silence she lingers Beside him all night To wash her long fingers In silvery light. Read the passage on the left to answer the following questions:
1) Which figurative device is used most often throughout the poem?
A) hyperbole
B) metaphor
C) onomatopoeia
D) personification
2) With words such as dead, blood, treacherous, savage, prey, murdered, and strangled, the author creates a picture of the ocean that is
A) calm and cool.
B) rough and stormy.
C) smooth and silky.
D) cruel and bloodthirsty.
