Read this poem.
Worry makes an ache—
stomach swims, head throbs . . .
It’s an unwanted guest
with endless requests.
Like an empty piggy bank
Worry offers nothing.
Which line from the poem contains a metaphor?
Worry makes an ache—
stomach swims, head throbs . . .
It’s an unwanted guest
Like an empty piggy bank

Stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, i could not being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if i were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. i wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. i saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as i was. i did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. i felt as if i alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. — “civil disobedience,” henry david thoreau based on this passage, how did thoreau feel about his confinement?

Which of the following steps is not part of analyzing a poem? a. explore the poet's background. b. explore the theme. c. examine form and structure. d. examine language patterns.

In virginia woolf's essay "a room of one's own," she creates a fictional sister of william shakespeare, whom she names "judith." what challenges does woolf claim this character would have experienced in her lifetime? why does woolf believe that elizabethan women did not write?