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"Unfortunately, it is precisely the men or women of genius who mind most what is said of them. Remember Keats. Remember the words he had cut on his tombstone. Think of Tennyson, think but I need hardly multiply instances of the undeniable, if very fortunate, fact that it is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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Answer:
Metaphor and overstatement
Explanation:
The metaphor is found in the phrase '' Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."
Overstatement is found in the phrase 'Think of Tennyson, think but I need hardly multiply instances of the undeniable if very fortunate, fact that it is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him."
Metaphor is a rhetorical device that allows a word, or a set of words, to be used to establish a relationship between two terms that are not normally related. In the sentence above, the metaphor was used to show that men have been thinking different opinions.
Overstatement, in turn, is used to show something exaggerated, literally. In the sentence above, this exaggeration is shown when the author reflects on the nature of an artist in representing thoughts as something bigger and more imposing than it really is.
