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Sedbober [7]
3 years ago
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Read the excerpt below and answer the question. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flowe

r that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. (Herrick, “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”; lines 1-4) The use of flower that smiles in the poem is best described as an example of
1. Carpe Diem
2. theme
3. personification
4. allusion
English
2 answers:
valina [46]3 years ago
8 0
It is an example of 3. personification.
Personification is a figure of speech where non-human entities are given human abilities or characteristics. So, flowers usually cannot smile (it is something that humans/animals can do), which is why it is a personification. Carpe Diem is the theme of this poem, but not the correct answer here.
KonstantinChe [14]3 years ago
6 0

It is an example of personification

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