Question

question 6 of 10
read these lines from levertov’s \in thai binh (peace) province\:
a girl, this one, eleven years old,
patient and bewildered in her home, a fragile
small house of mud bricks among rice fields.
which literary device is most clearly shown in this excerpt?

○ a. imagery
○ b. figurative language
○ c. parallelism
○ d. postmodernism

Explanation:

The excerpt uses descriptive details like "eleven years old", "fragile small house of mud bricks", and "among rice fields" to create a vivid mental picture, which is the definition of imagery. Figurative language (B) is too broad and not specific here, parallelism (C) involves repeated grammatical structures (not present), and postmodernism (D) is a literary movement, not a device. So imagery is the clearest device.

Answer:

A. Imagery