The topic—"Literary devices in American poetry"—would be a weak topic because such a topic is extremely vague and not specific enough.
American poetry uses many, MANY literary devices—and many of which are not unique to American poetry alone. Also, "American poetry" in general is too broad of topic.
Once you have the quote inside the marks you are going to put parenthesis then put (pg. 38).
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C. Concrete nouns and active verbs create a more powerful effect in
quality writing.
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