Question

"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

-from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
What type of figurative language is found within this literary example?

simile

metaphor

personification

irony

Answer 1

personification because the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.