Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow (Q. Nos. 100 to 105) by selecting the correct/most appropriate options:

Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred Tennyson

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward the Light Brigade !
Charge for the guns !" he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd ?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd.
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Name the figure of speech used in 'the Valley of Death'.

The correct option is Metaphor.

Explanation:

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things by stating that one thing is another, highlighting a similarity between them without using comparative words such as "like" or "as".

In the phrase "the Valley of Death" from Alfred Tennyson's poem Charge of the Light Brigade, the battlefield—a place of extreme danger, violence, and impending death—is directly compared to a valley owned or defined by Death itself. Because this implicit comparison does not use "like" or "as" (which would make it a simile), it is a classic example of a metaphor.

Breakdown of other options:
- Simile: A figure of speech comparing two different things using words such as "like" or "as" (e.g., "brave as a lion").
- Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole, or vice versa (e.g., "all hands on deck").
- Metonymy: A figure of speech in which a concept or thing is referred to by the name of something closely associated with it (e.g., "the Crown" to mean the monarch).