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D.) to describe his visions for the nation's rebirth.
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D. Real people and places
The speaker is addressing his words to death. The speaker is personifying death because death is not living it can not be proud.
Personifying/personification: Giving non living things living traits. like: The wind whipped our ankles as we walked down the narrow path.
the wind is not living it can not whip..
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