Read the excerpt below from the poem “miss rosie” by Lucille Clifton and answer the question that follows. when I watch youwrapped up like garbagesitting, surrounded by the smellof too old potato peels Source: Clifton, Lucille. “miss rosie.” Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980. Rochester: BOA Editions, Ltd., 1987. Poets.org. Web. 9 June 2011. Which of the following techniques is used in the excerpt? I. simile II. personification III. sensory imagery
The phrase “wrapped up like garbage” compares the person to garbage using “like,” so it is a simile. “The smell / of too old potato peels” appeals to the sense of smell, creating sensory imagery. Nothing in the excerpt gives a human quality to a nonhuman thing, so personification is not used.
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