Read the line below from the poem “birmingham sunday” by richard fariña and answer the question that follows. at an old baptist church there was no need to run. which literary technique does this line use? metaphor personification irony simile

irony

Irony is when something happens that is the opposite of what is expected. The line describes the church as a safe place. However, the church was the target of the bombing rather than the protest marches.

A metaphor is a comparison between two things without using like or as. A simile is a comparison using like or as. Personification is giving a non-human thing human-like characteristics.

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explanation:

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.