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20 December, 07:57

Which figure of speech is used in this line?

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

(from "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

A.

alliteration

B.

paradox

C.

personification

D.

irony

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  1. 20 December, 08:20
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    C. Personification

    Explanation:

    I had it down to either personification or paradox but a paradox is ultimately true and something will not be able to bury itself so it is personification as in saying the past can bury giving it human characteristics.
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