Question

Read the excerpt below from the poem “miss rosie” by Lucille Clifton and answer the question that follows.

when I watch you
wrapped up like garbage
sitting, surrounded by the smell
of too old potato peels

Source: Clifton, Lucille. “miss rosie.” Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980. Rochester: BOA Editions, Ltd., 1987. Poets.org. Web. 9 June 2011.



Which of the following techniques is used in the excerpt?

I. simile

II. personification

III. sensory imagery

I only
I and II
I and III
I, II, and III

Answer 1

I and III only

Step-by-step explanation:

because 'like' is used which is a simile and smell of the scene is given which is a sensory imagery