In "A Boy in a Bed in the Dark," the speaker says that the memory of the night he hurt his brother "plays / In my darkest theatre." What kind of figurative language is he using? personification, to make the memory seem like a living thing
simile, to show how going to a movie is like remembering a past event
metaphor, to compare the memory to a scary movie on a big screen
symbol, to suggest that people's lives are like movies