Question

what type of figurative language is used in these lines from \the rime of the ancient mariner\ by samuel taylor coleridge?
the sun came up upon the left,
out of the sea came he!
and he shone bright, and on the right
went down into the sea.

a. simile
b. alliteration
c. metaphor
d. personification

Explanation:

Personification is giving human-like traits to non-human things. Here, the Sun is referred to with the pronoun "he" and described as performing human-like actions (coming up, going down), which treats the non-human Sun as a person. A simile uses "like" or "as" (not present here), alliteration is repeated initial consonant sounds (not the key device here), and a metaphor directly compares two unrelated things without "like"/"as" (not used here).

Answer:

D. personification