Read the excerpt below from the poem “I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke and complete the sentence that follows. I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:The shapes a bright container can contain!Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,Or English poets who grew up on Greek(I’d have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek). Source: Roethke, Theodore. “I Knew a Woman.” The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. New York: Random House Inc., 1961. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June 2011. All of these types of figurative language appear in the excerpt above except __________.
The excerpt uses imagery in descriptions such as “small birds” and “bright container,” and it alludes to Greek gods and English poets shaped by Greek literature. “She moved more ways than one” can be read as exaggeration, or hyperbole. A simile directly compares two things using words such as “like” or “as,” and no such comparison appears here.
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