Taco Poem Personification

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6. The simile in this poem is “You can't order a poem like you order a taco“, which compares poems and tacos. It states they are different because poems are hiding, waiting be created and cannot be instantaneously be conceived, whilst tacos can.

7. The personification in the second stanza is that she gives poems the ability to hide and are waiting to be found. The author states that poems are hiding in the bottom of your shoes, and they are the shadows drifting across your ceiling before you wake up. This is personification because she gives the poems traits that only a living organism can possess.

8. The personification in the second stanza is also a metaphor. A metaphor compares two unlike things by saying one thing is another

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