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Read the Lines Given Above and Answer the Question that Follow. What Were the Daffodils Doing? Which Literary Device is Used Here? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in springhtly dance.

Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.

What were the daffodils doing? Which literary device is used here?

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The daffodils were dancing merrily in the breeze. The poet is using personification here when he compares the movement of the daffodils in the breeze to dancing humans.

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Chapter 1.06: Daffodils - Lines 7 - 12

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