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Answer:
In the poem Amanda by Robin Klein, the literary and poetic devices which are used are explained in the following:-
Explanation:
POETIC and LITERARY DEVICES
1- Rhyme scheme:
The scheme is AABA, since the last word of the 1st, 2nd and 4th lines are the same, the word being “Amanda”.
Furthermore the other lines consist of three rhyming lines each.
2- Rhetorical devices:
There are metaphors in the poem.
In the 2nd, 4th and 6th stanzas Amanda compares herself first with a mermaid, then with an orphan in the street and lastly with that of Rapunzel, the Disney princess.
Answer:
1 Alliteration
*Stop* that *slouching* and *sit* up *straight*
2. Repetition
Amanda
3. Anaphora
Don't...
4. Allusion
Mythological characters
mermaid, Rapunzel
5. Metaphor
Amanda as mermaid and Rapunzel