Thoreau is using the literary device of puns in this sentence.
Literary devices are found throughout the book.
In order to identify the literary device used in a sentence, I would need to know the specific sentence you are referring to. Literary devices can include metaphors, similes, personification, imagery, alliteration, etc. Each device conveys meaning in a unique way.
There is metaphor. The 'world of knives'. Personification of his country as a woman, his other love.
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Can you please provide the lyrics or text of the lullaby so that I can identify the literary devices used in it?
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Literary devices are any methods through which literature 'works'; be it metaphor, or some other grammatical form, or even certain themes (for example: jealousy, or the conflict in the middle east) or symbols. Literary appreciation the observing and cognitive reflection of literature and its literary devices.
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Simile: Like polished poems. Similies are the literary devices found most in the poem Orchid.