Acquainted With The Night: Figurative Language

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Those Winter Sundays and Acquainted With The Night have very little in common. Those Winter Sundays is more of an unorganized poem than Acquainted With The Night. Those Winter Sundays has no rhyme scheme nor does it have any sound devices. Acquainted With The Night has a rhyme scheme and sound devices. though they are different in organization they both use figurative language to get the reader's attention. The two figurative languages that stand out the most in Those Winter Sundays are oxymoron and personification. Acquainted With The Night had more figurative languages but throughout the poem, but symbolism and repetition were the two who stood out most in this poem.They have two completely different themes and structures. Those Winter

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