Question

-Read this excerpt from Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers”

"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops – at all
What is being compared to hope in the excerpt's central metaphor?
A. A bird
B. Hope
C. Flight
D. Feathers

Answer 1

A. a bird

Step-by-step explanation:

With words like "feathers" "perch" "singing a tune", all three of those things point towards a bird. it's not flight as that is never mentioned at all and doesn't really makes sense. and hope and feathers WERE mentioned but they are just a part of the metaphor, the actual metaphor, and the thing that the describing words are describing- Is a bird! hope this helps