Siegfried Sassoons The Dragon and the Undying includes the following lines: Yet, though the slain are homeless as the breeze,/Vocal are they, like stormbewilderd seas. Which of the following literary devices does Sassoon use in these lines and to what effect ?

A. Simile to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

B. Metonymy to describe the brutality of modern warfare

C. Metaphor to suggest a connection between soldiers and nature

D. Onomatopoeia to describe the brutality of modern warfare

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