Question #6431186Single Choice

AP English Literatur

Question

Passage from "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

Passage: The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

The figurative language used in the description of the sea in this passage (whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting) serves to:

Options

Portray the sea as a living, alluring entity.

Make the sea seem menacing.

Compare the sea to a human being.

Show the narrator's fear of the sea.

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