In emily dickinson’s poem “a bird came down the walk,” she compares a bird to butterflies off the banks of noon. from the list, which of these is the vehicle of the metaphor?

a. the bird
b. the walk
c. the banks of noon
d. butterflies

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”