Which poetic techniques are illustrated in the opening lines “I am fourteen/and my skin has betrayed me/the boy I cannot live without/still sucks his thumb/in secret”?alliteration and metaphorallusion and alliterationapostrophe and similepersonification and enjambment
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The poetic technique that is used in the corresponding question is personification and enjambment.
In the context of writing poems, personification happens when inanimate objects possess human qualities. “Skin has...”
Enjambment is a poetic technique when one thing or feeling appearing on a line is transferred to another line.
In the context of the poem “still sucks his thumb/in secret”.
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