Which poetic device is used here "love is a garden of flowers - some sweet smelling, some foul.

metaphor

A metaphor is a comparison between two things without using like or as. In this sentence the speaker is comparing love to a garden of flowers. The purpose is to show how sometimes love can be sweet and sometimes love can be foul. The speaker does not use the word like or as to make the comparison. Other examples of metaphors are My pillow is a cloud. The road race was run by cheetahs.

d.) then bernice winced as marjorie tossed her own hair over her shoulders and began to twist it slowly into two long blond braids until in her cream-colored negligée she looked like a delicate painting of some saxon princess. fascinated, bernice watched the braids grow. heavy and luxurious they were, moving under the supple fingers like restive snakes—and to bernice remained this relic and the curling iron and a to-morrow full of eyes.

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