LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY
GENRE AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
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Question
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What figure of speech is employed in the following line? “ ____ cold, collecting, calculating, crowd ____ “
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Alliteration
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Personification
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Onomatopoeia
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Oxymoron
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The poem makes typical use of alliteration(cold, collecting, calculating crowd, flowing, final, find)3.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 12 elements of poetry include structure, form, speaker, sound devices, figurative language, rhyme, meter, theme, tone, mood, syntax, and diction.
Detailed explanation-3: -Poetry is a type of literature that conveys a thought, describes a scene or tells a story in a concentrated, lyrical arrangement of words. Poems can be structured, with rhyming lines and meter, the rhythm and emphasis of a line based on syllabic beats. Poems can also be freeform, which follows no formal structure.
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