Use the space below to write a comparison couplet, using these guidelines and the example below: A title is not necessary, but can be used if you like. The first line describes what you see. The second line is a metaphor that describes the first line. You can write your own first line, or use one of these suggestions: An acrobat swinging through the air, An old oak tree struck by lightning, The planets circling the sun. In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. —Ezra Pound

Chicago by carl sandburg hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and the nation's freight handler; stormy, husky, brawling, city of the big shoulders: they tell me you are wicked and i believe them, for i have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. and they tell me you are crooked and i yes, it is true i have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. and they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: on the faces of women and children i have seen the marks of wanton hunger. and having answered so i turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and i give them back the sneer and say to them: come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning. flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities; fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness, bareheaded, shoveling, wrecking, planning, building, breaking, rebuilding, under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth, under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs, laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle, bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse. and under his ribs the heart of the people, laughing! laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be hog butcher, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads and freight handler to the nation. which type of figurative language does the poet use most often in "chicago"? a. rhyme b. simile c. metaphor d. personification.

mcarc09 mcarc09 · Answer 2 · 2025-05-03T13:00:59-04:00

Using the guidelines and the example, we can write a couplet in the following manner:

The old oak tree, trunk struck by lightning;

Murder of an innocent, motionless soul.

A couplet can be defined as two lines of poetry.

The two lines usually present the same meter and often rhyme with each other. However, that is not mandatory.

The instructions for this question tell us to write a couplet with the first line describing what we see, and the second one using a metaphor about the first line.

The question also suggests a few possibilities. We have chosen "an old oak tree struck by lightning."

Our first line describes that sight. The second line compares the death of the tree to the murder of an innocent soul.

The tree cannot escape the lightning (motionless) and it has never harmed anyone (innocent).

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