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What poetic device does Yeats use in the following excerpt from "Down by the Salley Gardens"?
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
A. repetition - a repeated word or phrase that is used to emphasize a point
B. personification - attributing human characteristics to something nonhuman
C. simile - a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
D. onomatopoeia - a word that imitates the sound that it describes
What poetic device does Yeats use in the following excerpt from "Down by the Salley Gardens"?
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
A. repetition - a repeated word or phrase that is used to emphasize a point
B. personification - attributing human characteristics to something nonhuman
C. simile - a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
D. onomatopoeia - a word that imitates the sound that it describes
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