5easy english ! what poetic device is used when hughes writes, "life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly? " question 1 options: simile metaphor hyperbole idiom which poetic device is used in the lines, "hold fast to dreams for if dreams die? " question 2 options: imagery metaphor simile personification which poetic device is used when silverstein writes, "and watch the way the word-web weaves" question 3 options: alliteration paradox irony imagery what poetic device is used in the lines, "the branches of the poet tree reach from the mountains to the sea? " question 4 options: hyperbole simile alliteration irony what poetic device is used in the lines "branches of the poet tree" and "falling rhymes? " question 5 options: metaphor personification paradox idiom