Read the following poem and answer the question that follows.


"I Like to See it Lap the Miles" by Emily wingspaninson


I like to see it lap the miles,

And lick the valleys up,

And stop to feed itself at tanks;

And then, prodigious, step


Around a pile of mountains,

And, supercilious, peer

In shanties by the sides of roads;

And then a quarry pare


To fit its sides, and crawl between,

Complaining all the while

In horrid, hooting stanza;

Then chase itself down hill


And neigh like Boanerges;

Then, punctual as a star,

Stop—docile and omnipotent—

At its own stable door.

This poem describes a train as if it were a horse. What literary device does the poet use in this poem?


Apostrophe


Extended simile


Misery


Extended metaphor