Question

Does anyone know the figurative language being used in women by alice walker. and what quote it is.

Answer 1

They were women then

My mama’s generation

Husky of voice—stout of

Step

With fists as well as

Hands

How they battered down

Doors

And ironed

Starched white

Shirts

How they led

Armies

Headragged generals

Across mined

Fields

(line removed because brainly doesn't understand it's not inappropriate)

Ditches

To discover books

Desks

A place for us

How they knew what

we

Must know

Without knowing a page

Of it

Themselves.

This poem focuses on black women's sacrifices to ensure their children's educations. It mainly celebrates the women of her mothers' era, who was a maid and wife to a failed sharecropper. The figurative language she uses highlights their strength and bravery they held and used, to try and make their kids' lives better so they could hold better opportunities.