What poetic device is used in these lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot?

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anonymous · Answer

And I have known the arms already, known them all—
Arms that are braceleted and white and bare
(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)

anonymous · Answer

allusion 


imagery


personification 


simile

anonymous · Answer

@amberxoxo

anonymous · Answer

@CaseyCarns Well, what can we eliminate?

anonymous · Answer

Personification

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Okay tell me this what IS Personification ? ...

anonymous · Answer

Personification is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

anonymous · Answer

Giving human charactoristics to nonhuman things

anonymous · Answer

Simile is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).

anonymous · Answer

imagery is a visually descriptive or figurative language, mostly in literary work.

anonymous · Answer

allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

anonymous · Answer

So which one do you think it is now...?

anonymous · Answer

@CaseyCarns what do you think?

anonymous · Answer

allusion

anonymous · Answer

allusion was wrong:(

anonymous · Answer

its imagery