What types of figures of speech do you find in the poem? Select all that apply.
Mist-obscured, the shadow mountains stand-
Ghost of heights submerged, in time forgotten, by the Flood.
Grey silhouettes devoid of substance-
Untouchable they seem, as if upon approach
they might, miragelike, fade away to nothing.
Like drifted snow the banks of clouds
that flank the mountains' sides
seem to dissolve them,
obliterating crevices and stones.
In vain the jagged knives have tried to score the heavens;
their agelong strife is brought to nothing.
Stone, like flesh,
returneth unto dust.
Soft on the wind laments a phantom whisper;
Faint in the clouds the shadow mountains hide.
by Carol L. Thoma
alliteration
metonymy
assonance
onomatopoeia
simile
metaphor
consonance
personification