Question

And your mouth is like a section of road that is being worked. 

a) Who is the speaker here? 

b) Why is the ‘mouth’ compared to a section of road that is being worked? 

c) What is the poetic device used in these lines?

Answer 1

a) Ogden Nash/The poet

b) When the road is being worked, you nd digging, cleaning, drilling, filling and so on. Here the same thing is happening to the mouth. The dentist is digging, drilling and cleaning and filling. 

c) Simile