Identify the figures of speech in the following quotations and explain their functions: The curfew tolls the knell of perting day
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Personification as well as Metaphor.
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The curfew tolls the knell of perting day is the line from an Ellegy written by Thomas Gray.
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The curfew is tolling the knell like a Sexton and the day is dying like a man. So it is an example of Personification. It is also an example of Metaphor because here the evening is compared to the death.
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