Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.

I ask them to take a poem

and hold it up to the light

like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

Which line from the excerpt contains a metaphor?

"I ask them to take a poem"

"and hold it up to the light"

"like a color slide"

"or press an ear against its hive

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Amir Schneider

6 November, 12:43

Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.

I ask them to take a poem

and hold it up to the light

like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

Which line from the excerpt contains a metaphor?

"I ask them to take a poem"

"and hold it up to the light"

"like a color slide"

"or press an ear against its hive

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Sasha · Answer 1

"Or press an ear against its hive," it is saying the ear has a hive, making it something other than an ear, not saying it is like something other than an ear.