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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 __________.


simile

imagery

allusion

hyperbole

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Skittles1111
Simile, because no part in the poem does it say anything is “like” or “as”another thing :) hope that helped
MrsTate

Simile

A simile is a comparison between two different things using like or as. The words like or as are not in this excerpt of the poem so this is the only correct answer.

Imagery is the use of descriptive words to create an image. Describing the way the birds sighed and comparing the ways she moved to a bright container. An allusion is a reference to an outside work. In this case the speaker alludes to English poets. A hyperbole is an over exaggeration.

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