Use "Song of the Sea" to answer questions 2-5.

2

Read lines 5 and 6 from the poem.

It plays with the clouds, it mocks the skies,

Or like a cradled creature lies.

The poet uses the personification in these lines to describe -

F

the excitement the speaker experiences when he rides on the ocean

G

the sounds and movements a ship makes as it moves through the ocean

H

the different ways the ocean looks when it moves

J

the similarities between the ocean and a baby

The correct answer is H: the different ways the ocean looks when it moves.

Explanation:

In these lines, the poet uses personification to describe how the ocean can behave in different situations by describing it through some human characteristics. Therefore, when the ocean is unsteady and when there is a lot of waves, he says that the ocean plays with clouds and mocks the skies, while, in other situations, when it is steady and still, he compares it with a cradled baby.

Personification represents a figure of speech in which the author attributes human characteristics to nonhuman things and objects, by representing their abstract quality in human form.