The eighth stanza of Robert Lowell's poem "For the Union Dead" begins: "The monument sticks like a fishbone / in the city's throat." The two poetic devices used in these lines from the poem are
hyperbole and simile
metaphor and Imagery
Imagery and hyperbole
simile and personification

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her." in this sentence, the term "usurpations" carries the connotation a) indicative of intense debate. b) suggestive of violent injustice. c) suggestive of articulate slander. d) indicative of controlling retribution.