11.
Read the poem below and answer the question that follows.

"Remembrance"
by Walter De la Mare


(1)The sky was like a waterdrop
In shadow of a thorn,
Clear, tranquil, beautiful,
Dark, forlorn.

(5)Lightning along its margin ran;
A rumour of the sea
Rose in profundity and sank
Into infinity.

Lofty and few the elms, the stars
(10)In the vast boughs most bright;
I stood a dreamer in a dream
In the unstirring night.

Lines 5-6 refer to the ocean waves as "a rumor of the sea." What type of figurative language is used?


metaphor

euphemism

idiom

simile

personification