Use the highlighter to identify the figurative language in the stanza. How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
—“I’m nobody! Who are you?”,
Emily Dickinson
What is the effect of Dickinson’s figurative language? Choose the best answer.
It makes people who are famous look like frogs relaxing in a luxurious bog.
It makes people who don’t want to be famous look like frogs sitting in a bog.
It makes people who want their name to be known look like frogs calling out to a bog