Lying
Answering a cell phone and text messages
Appearing arrogant
Dressing inappropriately
It is a <span>comparison detailed in the form of a </span>simile<span> that is many lines in length. Also called a Homeric</span>
amuses the audience
allows the protagonist to overcome forces opposing him
focuses on lighter subjects
Metaphors are used almost as much as personification in this passage, as the entire second stanza compares the mirror to a lake, but even before that metaphors are distinctly present. The mirror calls itself “the eye of a little god,” by that point in the poem, Plath has made sure that it’s clear that the mirror is distinguished as completely objective, “unmisted by love or dislike” and “not cruel, only truthful.”
