Answer both questions below in 250 words each
1.In Fences, Rose uses the following figure of speech to describe her marriage: “I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams . . . and I buried them inside of you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn’t take me no eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn’t never gonna bloom.” What is the name of the figure of speech being used here? What is being compared, and how does that comparison work? Please discuss how this figure of speech relates to the broader themes and plot development in the play.
2. Identify the figure(s) of speech used in the following excerpt from Lucille Clifton’s “homage to my hips” (show me not only that you know which part of the lines is a figure of speech, but what figure of speech it is!): What is being compared in this figure of speech? What is being described as casting “a spell”? How do they relate to the themes of the poem as a whole?
i have known them
to put a spell on a man and
spin him like a top
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