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What are the literary devices in the poem The Gift Outright?

What are the literary devices in the poem The Gift Outright?

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    Following literary devices have been used in the poem The Gift Outright:

    1. Allusion – It is a reference to any history outside the poem. Here the poet refers to the discourse of “westward expansion” and the “colonial history”
    2. Personification – It is the provision of human qualities to inanimate objects. Here, the land is personified as someone in relation to human beings who live on it.
    3. Paradox– the poem uses the paradoxical statements extensively.

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