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Imagery and Figurative Language — Homework
Read "Hope is the thing with feathers" (Emily Dickinson) closely, marking any word choices that extend the bird metaphor.
- 1.Is "Hope is the thing with feathers" a simile or a metaphor? Explain how you know.
- 2.Rewrite "Her laughter was a bell ringing through the house" as a simile.
- 3.Identify one detail in the poem that extends the bird metaphor with a new idea, rather than just repeating the comparison.
- 4.Write your own two-line extended metaphor comparing an abstract idea to a concrete object, adding at least one specific detail in the second line.
- 5.Explain the difference between personification and metaphor in one or two sentences.
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