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Question
Comment on the literary device, used in the following line:
Titania: Come wait upon him: lead him to my bower.
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Solution
- Personification – Bottom, who has the head of an ass, has been personified with the use of the pronoun 'him‘.
- Repetition – The word 'him‘ has been used twice in the same line.
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