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What are the poetic devices used in the poem Grabbing Everything on the land?

What are the poetic devices used in the poem Grabbing Everything on the land?
American PoetryAP Board Class 9Grabbing everything on the land PoemLily Usher

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      1. Simile: In the line ‘There came a wave-like a great hand’, a tsunami is compared to a huge hand with the usage of the word ‘like’, making it a simile.
      2. Metaphor: ‘A huge wall of white horses galloping ashore’ and ‘a hungry hound’ are both metaphors that denote the tsunami.
      3. Alliteration: A couple of examples would be ‘fingers of foam’ and ‘hungry hound’.

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