The first line of the second stanza of Robert Lowell’s poem, “For the Union Dead,” reads: “Once my nose crawled like a snail on
the glass.” This is an example of _____. simile to suggest the speaker’s excitement at seeing the fish
conceit to set the tone of sadness throughout the rest of the poem
hyperbole to express the intensity of the speaker’s memory
metaphor to compare the window to a slowly moving snail
Italicized words are those which are written in a ‘slant’ way. We often come across such italicized words and sentences in novels, poems, and written documents.
Italicized style of writing is used mainly to draw attention on the important things.
In the sentence, ’Although the women was attacked by a swarm of bees, she managed to escape with little injury’, the term that should be used as an Italicized word is probably ‘attacked.’ When readers read attacked, it makes them curious to know as to what will happen next? So attacked is mostly the word which can draw a readers attention.
