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What are the Poetic Devices of the Poem Prayer Before Birth?

What are the Poetic Devices of the Poem Prayer Before Birth?

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    1. Euphemism: They are polite, indirect expressions. A euphemism is often used in writing or speech to avoid a more harsh or blunt term. For example, “like water held in the hands would spill me”
    2. Personification: A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. For example, “trees to talk to me”
    3. Metaphor: It is a common poetic device where an object in, or the subject of, a poem is described as being the same as another otherwise unrelated object. “make me a cog in a machine”

     

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