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Explanation the answer is C
The literary device that Whitman uses to address the sea in this excerpt from "Song of Myself" is apostrophe.
According to the dictionary, apostrophe, aside from being a punctuation mark, is a literary device that consists of "the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically" (Merriam-Webster.)
In this excerpt, Whitmant is clearly personifying the sea by adressing directly to it as a person ("You sea!") and as if it could understand what he is saying to it ("I resign myself to you...")
Answer: I believe the word that you’re looking for is “Diction.” If it is incorrect, I apologize. The definition of “diction” is: “an author's choice of words. Since words have specific meanings, and since one's choice of words can affect feelings, a writer's choice of words can have great impact in a literary work.”
I think its either the first or last one
