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What are the Poetic Devices of the Poem The Library?

What are the Poetic Devices of the Poem The Library?
American PoetryJohn Greenleaf WhittierThe Library Poem

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    2. MANSI VERMA
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      1. Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession whose purpose is to provide an audible pulse that gives a piece of writing a lulling, lyrical, and/or emotive effect. For example, ‘Let there be light!’
      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, “The lords of thought await our call!”

       

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