Drag each tile to the correct box.
Match each literary device with the reason authors use it.

idiom
repetition
paradox
allusion

builds a connection with the reader by referring to an event, a person, or another text

makes readers stop and think about the truth in a seemingly untrue statement

emphasizes key information and important ideas

adds creativity to writing and paints vivid images in the reader's mind

explanation:

yessum

there is not such an "uncle" in the poem "a servant to servants". the narrator refers to many characters -particularly her brother and her husband- both suffering from mental illness. the woman is also suffering because she does something to but she is not happy with the situation.

the poem has a dramatic monologue about the woman life's circumstances and her traumatic events form the past.

"a servant to servants" is a poem written by robert frost, and is part of a collection of poems "north of boston", of 1915.