Question

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands,
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls;
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Which type of figurative language is used in this description of the eagle: "He clasps the crag with crooked hands?"
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
simile

Answer 1

personification because the eagle does not have hands like a human, it has claws. 

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is indeed option C) personification.

Explanation:

The sentence "He clasps the crag with crooked hands" employs a figure of speech called personification. Personification is when an author gives a non-human thing - an object, an idea, an animal - attributes or features of a human. In this case, the pronoun "he" is being used to refer to an animal even though the correct pronoun would be "it". Also, the author chooses to use the word "hands" - a human body part - to refer to the eagle's "claws".