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Read the excerpt from "Turtle" by Kay Ryan:

"Jage
her shell into a serving dish. She lives
below luck-level, never imagining some lottery
will change her load of pottery to wings.
Her only levity is patience,
the sport of truly chastened things."

Which words from the poem are an example of a metaphor?

A. she can ill afford the chances she must take
B. will change her load of pottery to wings
C. With everything optimal, / she skirts the ditch
D. almost any slope / defeats her modest hopes



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Final answer:

The answer identifies and explains the metaphor in the poem.


Explanation:

B. will change her load of pottery to wings is an example of a metaphor in the poem.

A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by stating one thing is another. In this case, the line suggests a transformation from a heavy burden (load of pottery) to freedom and lightness (wings).


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