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List a simile in the poem. ABANDONED FARMHOUSE

He was a big man, says the size of his shoes
on a pile of broken dishes by the house;
a tall man too, says the length of the bed
in an upstairs room; and a good, God-Fearing man,
says the bible with a broken back
on the floor below the window, dusty with sun;
but not a man for farming, say the fields
cluttered with boulders and the leaky barn.
A woman lived with him, say the bedroom wall
papered with lilacs and the kitchen shelves
covered with oilcloth, and they had a child,
says the sandbox made from a tractor tire.
Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves
and canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole,
and the winters cold, say the rags in the window frames.
It was lonely here, says the narrow gravel road.
Something went wrong, says the empty house
in the weed-choked yard. Stones in the fields
say he was not a farmer; the still-sealed jars
in the cellar say she left in a nervous haste.
And the child? Its toys are strewn in the yard
Like branches after a storm—
a rubber cow, a rusty tractor with a broken plow,
a doll in overalls. Something went wrong, they say.
List the pronouns in the poem.

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Answer: "Like branches after a storm- a rubber cow, a rusty tractor with a broken plow, a doll in overalls."

Explanation: This sentence is a simile because it is comparing something using like or as.

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Answer: “He was a big man, says the size of his shoes”, “A woman lived with him, says the bedroom wall” and “Something went wrong, says the empty house.” Simile: It is a device used to compare a person or an object with something else to make the meanings clear to the readers.

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