Question

which poetic device is used in and both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black​

Answer 1

Answer:

The poetic device is personification

Answer 2

Answer:

The poetic devices employed in the lines are personification and imagery.

Explanation:

Poetic devices are tools an author or writer employs to increase their works' aesthetic appeal. They also help in presenting an idea that might otherwise be intelligible to the readers. The poetic devices also help in acquiring a meter and rhyme scheme. In the given lines, two poetic devices are employed.

1. Personification- This poetic device is employed to give human-like attributes to otherwise inanimate objects or phenomena. The lines "and both that morning equally lay" are telling the readers about two roads in front of the author/ narrator. They are spoken of as being 'laid' as a human would.
2. Imagery- This poetic device is employed to invoke vivid images in the readers' minds through their vivid explanations. "Leaves no step had trodden black" invokes the image of roads strewn with leaves that lay undisturbed. The road on which many people have traversed would have blackened trodden-upon leaves.

Thus these sentences are personification and imagery respectively.