Read this excerpt from the poem "Lincoln Looked." It was time for a change. Lincoln looked deep within himself and searched for the recipe for a new country made from so many wild and unique ingredients. Which metaphor is used in the poem?

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Read this excerpt from the poem "Lincoln Looked.”

It was time for a change. Lincoln

looked deep within himself and searched

for the recipe for a new country made

from so many wild and unique ingredients.

Which metaphor is used in the poem?

Lincoln is compared to a recipe that has many ingredients.

Lincoln is compared to a country that is wild and unique.

The country is compared to a president who looks deep within.

The country is compared to a recipe that has many ingredients.

The correct answer is The country is compared to a recipe that has many ingredients.

Explanation:

A metaphor is a type of rhetorical figure or expression in which the meaning of one concept is related to that of another, establishing a relationship where it is implied that there is a similarity between the two.

In this case we can see that Lincoln searched for the recipe for a new country from unique ingredients, we all know that there is no recipe to create a country and no ingredients either. That is why this is called a metaphor, since he used the meaning of the recipe concept, to establish "the guidelines" in which he can find "unique ways" to shape a new country.

answer: from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people

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