How are poetry and short stories different? How are they similar?

Match each literary device to its definition. pun the use of humor and exaggeration to mock or criticize people's impractical thoughts and practices irony the use of words in a way that conveys the opposite of what they mean paradox the use of a word with more than one possible meaning with the intention of creating humor satire ideas or concepts that seem absurd or contradictory but are nevertheless true arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth

In marigolds, which character can be described as having a laugh so loud that the great oak seemed to laugh with it?

What does"after getting my report card i knew it was time to hit the books mean