Margaret Atwood Literary Devices

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Throughout the poem, there were four types of literary devices I found. All of the devices are sending out the message of respecting Earth and all its components that make it Earth. 1. The first literary device discovered in this poem is imagery is on verse lines 3-4. It visually describes an image of what to expect when the following was stated, "you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country," (Atwood 1). 2. The next device is personification which describes a tree with human characteristics as if it were a human. It was said in verse lines 7-8," is the same moment when the trees unloose, their soft arms from around you," (Atwood 1). There is another personification relating to nature with the human

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