boys will be lost always little boy which figure of speech is it
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Alliteration
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'Apostrophe' is the figure of speech that has been employed in 'balls...., little boy.'
Explanation:
- The given line 'balls...., little boy' is taken from John Berryman's Poem.
- It addresses a little boy who(physically absent there) learns to cope with the loss of dear/loved ones.
- Apostrophe is demonstrated as the figure of speech in which the author or speaker addresses an absent or dead person or either an inanimate object.
- In the given line from the poem i.e. 'line 13', the speaker employs 'apostrophe.'
- He directly talks to the little boy and tells him that 'balls(representative of dearly things or people) are inclined to get lost'. However, the boy is never seen responding to it which implies that he is physically not present in the scene.
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