Question

Directions: The poem specifically contains metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and simile. Highlight each example according to the color given in each figure of speech mentioned before.
A Lady

By Amy Lowell


You are beautiful and faded

Like an old opera tune

Played upon a harpsichord;

Or like the sun-flooded silks

Of an eighteenth-century boudoir1.

In your eyes

Smoulder the fallen roses of outlived minutes,

And the perfume of your soul

Is vague and suffusing2,

With the pungence of sealed spice-jars.

Your half-tones delight me,

And I grow mad with gazing

At your blent colors.


My vigor3 is a new-minted penny,

Which I cast at your feet.

Gather it up from the dust,

That its sparkle may amuse you.

HELP ME PLEASE I DON'T UNDERSTAND HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME IT HAS A DUE HOUR AND IT WILL BE LIKE IN 45 MINUTES

Answer 1

Answer:

(instead of highlighting i underlined)

You are beautiful and faded

Like an old opera tune (simile)

Played upon a harpsichord;

Or like the sun-flooded silks (simile)

Of an eighteenth-century boudoir1.

In your eyes

Smoulder the fallen roses of outlived minutes, (personification)

And the perfume of your soul (metaphor)

Is vague and suffusing2,

With the pungence of sealed spice-jars.

Your half-tones delight me,

And I grow mad with gazing (hyperbole)

At your blent colors.

My vigor3 is a new-minted penny, (metaphor)

Which I cast at your feet.

Gather it up from the dust,

That its sparkle may amuse you.

Explanation: