Question

What literary device is most clearly at work in “thy streets for evermore / Will silent be” in "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?

• A. Apostrophe
• B. Personification
• C. Hyperbole
• D. Synecdoche

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Personification

• The town is personified with “streets” that will “be silent,” giving it human qualities of absence and loneliness.