Answer:
Simile: “but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell”
Metaphor: speaker says a promise made is a debt unpaid. Here, the poet uses a metaphor. He compares a promise to unpaid debt.
Personification: It seemed to the speaker as if the furnace roared
Repetition: Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home is the south to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
End rhyme: *see repetition
Imagery: I cremated Sam McGee
Hyperbole: The line, “But the queerest they ever did see,” contains hyperbole.
Assonance: Howled out their woes to the homeless snows— O God! how I loathed the thing
Consonance: Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee, it’s the first time I’ve been warm
Internal rhyme: The Northern Lights have seen queer sights”. The words “lights” and “sights” rhyme with each other.
I could not find an understatement in the poem, sorry.
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Later vignettes show Esperanza becoming aware and interested in womanhood. This is first evidenced in "Hips" when she notices this defining mark of a woman and ponders why they exist. She later comes of age in "Sire" when she begins to show interest in the opposite sex. Esperanza also faces many experiences that strip her of her innocence. No vignette is more powerful in showing this than "Red Clowns" where Esperanza is raped by a man at a carnival.
