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What are the poetic devices/figures of speech used in the poem March?

What are the poetic devices/figures of speech used in the poem March?

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    • Simile- a figure of speech in which one object is compared to another of a different sort in order to make a description more strong or vivid. There are forty feeding like one, Like an army defeated
    • Onomatopoiea- a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.  The small birds twitter- Twitter indicate the chirping sound of birds.
    • Oxymoron– a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. The oldest and the youngest- youngest and oldest are opposite terms.

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