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What are the poetic devices used in the poem The Grass is really like me?

What are the poetic devices used in the poem The Grass is really like me?

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    • Simile– A figure of speech that directly compares two things. g. the grass is also like me, Man needs God as he needs water and oxygen

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    • Metaphor– Directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. E.g. But they are merely straw not grass, work is food for noble minds.

     

    • Personification– Giving something that is not human, a personal nature or human traits. E.g. as soon as it can raise its head, the lawn mower obsessed with flattening it into velvet mows it down, fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

     

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