Wait can someone see which sentence is the correct grammar? Failures can be defined as mistakes made through a person's lifetime which causes them to not be successful.

Which one is correct, to not be successful, or not to be successful?

What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from james joyce's "the dead"? his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling. a. metaphor b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. euphemism