Question 6 • VT-FL-FAST-Grade 10 English Language Arts-Reading
The poem directly compares hope to a bird without using “like” or “as”: hope is called “the thing with feathers” that perches and sings. That makes the comparison a metaphor. The bird is also described with human-like actions, but the central device in the quoted opening is the metaphor comparing hope to a bird.
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