perhaps the earth can teach us.what is the poetic device used in the sentence
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The Earth can teach us: This is an instance of personification. Earth is given the human attribute of teaching. Extended Metaphor: An extended metaphor can be found in the lines – “Perhaps the earth can teach us/as when everything seems dead/and later proves to be alive.
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Personification
Here in the given sentence the earth is showing human quality of teaching that's why we can call it personification.
What is personification?
It is one of the figures of speech. When nonliving things or non human thing represents some human attributes or shows some human qualities at the time we can say that it is personalification.
Sometimes when animals or inanimate objects shows some human characteristics emotions or behaviour like human being we can call it personification.
Examples -
- The trees dance in the wind.
- The birds sing like a melodious singer.
- The grey cloud cried whole night.
- The book is laughing.
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