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5 EASY ENGLISH HELP!!!

What poetic device is used when Hughes writes, "Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly?"
Question 1 options:


simile


metaphor


hyperbole


idiom
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Which poetic device is used in the lines, "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die?"
Question 2 options:


imagery


metaphor


simile


personification
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Which poetic device is used when Silverstein writes, "and watch the way the word-web weaves"
Question 3 options:


alliteration


paradox


irony


imagery
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What poetic device is used in the lines, "The branches of the poet tree reach from the mountains to the sea?"
Question 4 options:


hyperbole


simile


alliteration


irony
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What poetic device is used in the lines "branches of the poet tree" and "falling rhymes?"
Question 5 options:


metaphor


personification


paradox


idiom

2 Answers

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for #5, the correct answer is metaphor.

User Jakehawken
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1. metaphor
2.personification
3.
alliteration
4.
hyperbole
5.
personification
User Thomas Pinetz
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