Question

13. What is the following section from Elizabeth Bishop's, "The Fish," an example of?

Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age.
He was speckled with barnacles,
fine rosettes of lime,
and infested
with tiny white sea-lice,
and underneath two or three
rags of green weed hung down.
A. Imagery
B. Personification
C. Meter
D. Hyperbole

Answer 1

(B)

The dramatic red and blacks of his shiny entrails and the oink swim bladder.

Step-by-step explanation:

This is the example of the imagism from the fish by Elizabeth bishop. Imagism is a form of poetry which the excerpt used for depicting the major aspect of the poem with the use of clear and precise image. The lines from the excerpts made the readers think about the images and the picture used in the fish for depicting the proper dramatic scenario