Read the excerpt from the poem "She Sweeps with Many-Colored Brooms" by Emily Dickinson Then answer the question that follows.
She sweeps with many-colored brooms,
And leaves the shreds behind;
Oh, housewife in the evening west,
Come back, and dust the pond!
You dropped a purple ravelling in,
You dropped an amber thread;
And now you've littered all the East
With duds of emerald!
And still she plies her spotted brooms,
And still the aprons fly,
Till brooms fade softly into stars
And then I come away.
Which of the following statements best explains the poet's use of figurative language?
The poet incorporates onomatopoeia to show the various sounds the broom's movements make across the sky.
The poet uses a metaphor to compare the colors of a sunset to a housewife sweeping colors of various things across the sky.
The poet uses meiosis to understate the mess that is made by a family throughout the course of a day.
The poet uses hyperbole to exaggerate the mess the women in the poem must clean.