Question

this is for the woman with one black wing perched over her eyes: lovely frida, erect among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, who painted herself a present— wildflowers entwining the plaster corset her spine resides in, that flaming pillar— this priestess in the romance of mirrors. each night she lay down in pain and rose to the celluloid butterflies of her beloved dead, lenin and marx and stalin arrayed at the footstead. and rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting like children along the graveled walks of the garden, diego’s love a skull in the circular window of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. —“sonnet in primary colors” what type of figurative language is the underlined text? simile how does this figurative language contribute to the meaning of the poem? it explains kahlo’s painting as childlike. it suggests that kahlo treated painting like schoolwork. it describes the energy that kahlo brought to her work.

Explanation:

For the first question (type of figurative language):

A simile uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things. The underlined text has "like children", so it's a simile.

• The first option is incorrect as there's no indication of childlike painting.
• The second option is wrong as painting isn't portrayed as schoolwork.
• The third option is correct: The simile of dogs panting like children shows energy (dogs panting with eagerness, children with excitement), reflecting Kahlo's energetic approach to her work (rising to easel after pain).

Answer:

simile

For the second question (contribution to poem's meaning):