Whare the poetic devices used in the poem Dream of the Rood?

Whare the poetic devices used in the poem Dream of the Rood?

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    1. Personification– Personification is a figure of speech in which an inanimate object is given a human quality.  Example- that best of woods began to speak words:
    2. Alliteration– It is when the same sound is repeated at the beginning of multiple words for poetic effect. Example- that I was felled from the forest’s edge,
    3. Synecdoche– It  is a figure of speech in which a part of something is substituted for the whole. Example-Then I prayed to the tree with a happy heart,

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