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Read the poem below and answer the question.


The Eagle


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.


The following is an example of what kind of figurative language?


"like a thunderbolt he falls"


personification

metaphor

simile

imagery