Read this excerpt from "The Destructive Male” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton.


Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony, and beauty may reign supreme.

Which form of figurative language does Stanton include in this excerpt?

allusion
alliteration
onomatopoeia
personification