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Figurative Language and Rhetorical Devices

Identify allusion, metaphor, extended metaphor, personification, rhetorical questions and irony, then explain the effect each creates.

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Device plus effect

In text analysis, naming a device is only the first move. A strong answer also explains what idea, feeling or perspective the device helps create in this particular passage.