An allusion to classical mythology and a joke within a parenthetical aside.
Emerson uses a metaphor in this excerpt from "Self-Reliance." He compares the individual's will to "sallies" that are restricted and shaped by the "law of his being," emphasizing the idea that human nature imposes limits on our actions.
The literary device used is dramatic irony. The audience knows that the speaker is condemning himself to exile.
The literary device Achebe employs in the excerpt from Things Fall Apart is foreshadowing. This is evident as he hints at future events in the story by mentioning the customs of the clan changing and the arrival of white missionaries causing a significant shift in the community.
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Parallelism
F. Scott Fitzgerald employs the literary device of metaphor in this excerpt from The Great Gatsby. The image of beating on boats against the current symbolizes the struggle against the flow of time and how individuals are constantly pulled back into their past. This metaphor adds a poetic and evocative quality to the sentence.
This excerpt uses personification by giving human qualities to the landscape and shadows. Personification is a literary device where non-human things are described as if they have human feelings or actions. It enhances the imagery and creates a sense of depth in the description.
Onomatopoeia is the name of the literary device in which sounds are written into words.
Please provide the scenario or excerpt for me to identify the poetic device used.
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First-person narration is a literary device that deals with blatantly negative language.
The literary device that is used here is repetition.