Which figurative language comes across most clearly in this excerpt from T.S. Eliot's "Preludes"?

The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.

A.
irony
B.
imagery
C.
repetition
D.
hyperbole
E.
euphemism

Respuesta :

The figurative language that comes across most clearly in the excerpt from T.S. Eliot's “Preludes” is imagery.

What is figurative language?

Figurative language is the use of words which modify and make colorful the writing. This is the use of different words for justifying the different sentence or words.

"Preludes" is a poem about the city life, poet criticize the urban life. The poem talks about loneliness in cities.

Thus, the correct option is B. imagery.

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