Ri2maryosupe8r Ri2maryosupe8r

29-09-2016
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Which literary device is used in these lines from the poem "Alone" by Maya Angelou?

Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone

simile

personification

irony

allusion

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larnelle48 larnelle48

29-09-2016

personification for the first line where water is given human qualities and simile for the comparison of bread and stone

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antonsandiego antonsandiego

29-09-2016

The device which is being used in the lines represented above is definitely personification. The word ''thirsty'' usually describes the state of alive beings, so water there obtains a human meaning which is common for personification characteristics.

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