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Question
Read the following lines from the poem and answer the question that follow.
I was angry with my friend.
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe.
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
Identify the figure of speech in the title of the poem.
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Solution
The figure of speech is “metaphor”
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| Poetic device | Lines from the poem |
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| Personification | |
| Repetition | |
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Seeming still, yet still in motion.
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ACROSS
2. Earth's only natural satellite
3. Morning star
6. Titan is the largest moon of ____
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Rampaging through the heavens
Never stopping day or night,
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In the dust, they leave behind,
Could have started life on the earth,
Which resulted in mankind.
According to scientists, how did life start on earth?
