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Ganezh [65]
3 years ago
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What figure of speech is used in this line from Walt Whitman's "I hear America singing"?

English
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Kaylis [27]3 years ago
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Answer:

personification

In this line from Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing," personification is used. Personification is a figure of speech, or indirect way of conveying an idea, that represents a non-human thing as if it were human so as to give human qualities or traits to it, often by way of a metaphor.

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