In robert frost's poem "birches," the lines "you may see their trunks arching in the woods/ years afterwards, trailing their leave on the ground / like girls on hands and knees that throw their " use which two poetic devices? a. simile and metaphor b. metaphor and imagery c. imagery and alliteration d. simile and imagery

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can