Question

this is for the woman with one black wing perched over her eyes: lovely frida, erect among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, who painted herself a present - wildflowers entwining the plaster corset her spine resides in, that flaming pillar - this priestess in the romance of mirrors. each night she lay down in pain and rose to the celluloid butterflies of her beloved dead, lenin and marx and stalin arrayed at the footstead. and rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting like children along the graveled walks of the garden. diegos love a skull in the circular window of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. - sonnet in primary colors. what type of figurative language is the underlined text? allusion metaphor simile how does this figurative language contribute to the

Explanation:

Allusion refers to a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. Metaphor is a figure - of - speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. Simile uses "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two different things. The text "the hundred dogs panting like children" uses "like" to compare dogs panting to children, which is a simile.

Answer:

simile