Question

analyzing figurative language. 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 footstread. 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? simile. how does this figurative language contribute to the meaning of the poem? it explains kahlos painting as childlike. it suggests that kahlo treated painting like schoolwork. it describes the energy that kahlo brought to her work.

Explanation:

The simile "the hundred dogs panting like children" creates a vivid image and conveys playfulness and energy. It describes the lively and child - like energy Kahlo brought to her work environment as she went to her easel.

Answer:

It describes the energy that Kahlo brought to her work.