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Question
Complete the table by identifying lines, against the poetic devices from the poem.
| Poetic lines | Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech |
| It takes much time to kill a tree. | |
| The bleeding bark will heal. | |
| Out of the anchoring earth |
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Solution
| Poetic lines | Poetic Devices/Figures of Speech |
| It takes much time to kill a tree. | Alliteration (takes,time,to, tree) |
| The bleeding bark will heal. | Personification |
| Out of the anchoring earth | Metaphor (''root'' is indirectly compared to ''anchor'') |
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