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What are the figure of speech used in the poem My Computer Needs a Break?

What are the figure of speech used in the poem My Computer Needs a Break?

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  1. Following poetic devices/literary devices have been used in the poem My Computer Needs a Break:

    1. Personification: A personification is a figure of speech which gives human qualities to non-human things such as nature or household things. Example- My naughty computer actually gobbled a worm
    2. Hyperbole: Hyperbole is a literary device used to draw emphasis through extreme exaggeration. Example- It seems to know mountains of information by heart.
    3. Alliteration: Alliteration is commonly defined as the repetition of consonant sounds at the start of words in a sequence or a line. Example- But of late, my computer has been behaving badly too.

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