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AIDA AIDA	AIDA can spot a hidden metaphor, And uncover a hidden meaning, She sees through the poet's facade, And reveals the emotion...	Rate it (5.00 / 7 votes)
Sword of Damocles James Espinosa MD	Was just a rather dramatic...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
The Artist Naomi Fowke	The horizon A faint, sketched, stretched metaphor Separates the grounds A brush dipped In rhythm and rhyme Works the page Wet,...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
A Christmas Reverie Christen Kuikoua	The epic tale, in pages old and true, A metaphor for grace, a love...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Dead Metaphors Thomas Molitor	There are dead metaphors buried all over the world in shallow,...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Hide and Seek Musfira Dar	And felt no more, For hide and seek to me was a metaphor, A nightmare I greeted every...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
On Dawlish Beach John Roper	Often you wait all week for a metaphor, then two turn up on the same day like apple green country...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Once In A Blue Moon Charles Edward York	All encompassing The total sum Metaphor in my aperture Once in a blue moon My cosmic soulmate Lonely no...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Suburban Meth-Head James MacNee	im not using some metaphor to show that those who sell dope are really just doin it so their pockets grow,...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Moment Demands Kurt Philip Behm	pointed they were wrong A metaphor chosen to soothe and delight, but our choices a different...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Thoughts YASER HUSSAIN	I lack the perfect metaphor or simile, No clever imagery to describe my place in society, Just simple words to describe...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Words of a Poet Steve Cochrane	The metaphor can give us more As well as...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Soon the Shrub Will Out Karl Constantine FOLKES	Again — the shrub, the thought … A metaphor of fleeting sacred...	Rate it (4.33 / 3 votes)
"Remember" Brent J.W. Foreman	A metaphor for most is Lifes a flat tire with broken...	Rate it (4.00 / 3 votes)
The Metaphor Alisha Galloway	How great to be a metaphor, to sleep on a bed of clouds, And use drapes...	Rate it (4.00 / 1 vote)
"Whispers of the Soul: A Journey Through Poetry's Realm" Mawphniang Napoleon	A tapestry of dreamscapes, where metaphors...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
8th Grade ELA Frederick Kent	Each assignment was a wall needed to be climbed (metaphor) You had to stay strong, keep up the productivity Making sure that every single line in the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Colourful Life Victor Gatenby	Indeed, colour in this sense, is used as a metaphor and I will tell you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Dialogue At Fiesole Alfred Austin	Dare I with you contend in metaphor, It might not be so fanciful to show That nest, and eggs, and music, all are...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Fable For Critics James Russell Lowell	(Or, if 'tis a water-mill, alter the metaphor, And say it won't stir, save the wheel be well wet afore, Or lug...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Journey from the Singularity charliewang	With no sound is a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A lesson repeated Bill Kurple	As I stumbled from metaphor to deperate hint Lost-confused-hope- something to ignore But there is no easy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A LITERATURE ON LITERATURE Dotun Ade	The Metaphor and Similes, hyperbole and paradox,the idioms, but i was frightened of having irony as a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Sky-Blue Meditation Inge Meldgaard	Love and hate - the stuff of poetry, A metaphor of life, A sky-blue meditation as I cut off the stalks before their seeds can...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Sort of a Song William Carlos Williams	-- through metaphor to reconcile the people and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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A brief and intentional reference to a historical, mythological, or literary person, place, event, or movement is called a _______.

A hyperbole

B allusion

C simile

D metaphor