Question

The sentence “I think that I have never seen a poem lovely as a tree” uses the word "poem" as a __________ term in an __________ way. a. concrete, abstract b. concrete, denotative c. denotative, connotative d. connotative, abstract

Answer 1

The correct answer is A. concrete, abstract. The concrete meaning of a poem is what the thing is while the abstract meaning is how it could be understood. The concrete here is the poem while the abstract is that for the narrator trees are as beautiful as poems so he uses figurative language.