He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
close to the sun in lonely lands,
ringed with the azure world, he stands,
the wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
he watches from his mountain walls;
and like a thunderbolt he falls.
which type of figurative language is used in this description of the eagle: "he clasps the crag with crooked hands? "
metaphor
onomatopoeia
personification
simile

The answer is indeed option C) personification.

Explanation:

The sentence "He clasps the crag with crooked hands" employs a figure of speech called personification. Personification is when an author gives a non-human thing - an object, an idea, an animal - attributes or features of a human. In this case, the pronoun "he" is being used to refer to an animal even though the correct pronoun would be "it". Also, the author chooses to use the word "hands" - a human body part - to refer to the eagle's "claws".

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