5easy english ! what poetic device is used when hughes writes, "life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly? " question 1 options: simile metaphor hyperbole idiom which poetic device is used in the lines, "hold fast to dreams for if dreams die? " question 2 options: imagery metaphor simile personification which poetic device is used when silverstein writes, "and watch the way the word-web weaves" question 3 options: alliteration paradox irony imagery what poetic device is used in the lines, "the branches of the poet tree reach from the mountains to the sea? " question 4 options: hyperbole simile alliteration irony what poetic device is used in the lines "branches of the poet tree" and "falling rhymes? " question 5 options: metaphor personification paradox idiom

What can you infer about esperanza's character from the fact that she argues three days with her mother trying to persuade her to write the note?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Which statement best describes an example of irony from chapters 22 and 23 of the adventures of huckleberry finn