Personification is a literary device that uses the non-literal use of language to convey concepts in a relatable way. Writers use personification to give human characteristics, such as emotions and behaviors, to non-human things, animals, and ideas.
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Simile
Of men that look like your father
A simile is a figure of speech and type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words “like” or “as.” The purpose of a simile is to help describe one thing by comparing it to another thing that is perhaps seemingly unrelated.
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Metaphor
Home is the mouth of a shark
A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another for rhetorical effect.
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Anaphora
no one could take it
no one could stomach it
no one skin would be tough enough
Anaphora is the repetition of a word or sequence of words at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences.
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Enjambment
Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break
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6th and 7th stanza enjambment in relation to the text
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Centre and Margin
It is not limited to the western world.
historically, the western world has been the centre and African countries or Asian countries would be the margin.
