<em>The major device used at the beginning of the poem is personification.
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You should cover Let her go or dear Maria
I think the one that learn the least is : The narrator's aunt. She kept making unreasonable accusation throughout the story. One of it was that she believed that the burglar has been coming to her house every night for the last 40 years. i might say that the one that learn the most would be the narrator himself.
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