Correct Response: D. In the last two lines of the excerpt, a simile is used to compare the moon to a shepherd ("an orange moon rises / To lead them, like a shepherd, toward dawn"); the moon resembles a shepherd, and the stars, by implication, resemble sheep. In the second line of the excerpt, some slight personification is used when the human quality of eagerness is associated with a finger, but this personification suggests no actual resemblance between a star and a human hand (A). Nowhere in this excerpt are stars compared to gemstones (B). This excerpt provides no strong examples of alliteration and no explicit references to stargazing (C).
