Read the excerpt below from the poem “I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke and complete the sentence that follows. I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain! Of her choice virtues only gods should speak, Or English poets who grew up on Greek (I’d have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek). Source: Roethke, Theodore. “I Knew a Woman.” The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. New York: Random House Inc., 1961. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June 2011. All of these types of figurative language appear in the excerpt above except __________. simile imagery allusion hyperbole

The simile refers to the comparison made in the literary field between two terms, but in a more direct and simple way than for example in a metaphor. Within this extract a comparison is made between birds and sighs, however they do not make a direct allusion to a woman or object. Roethke is a poem that mainly seeks to describe or exalt a quality of a woman, but without comparing it to other facts.