Question

What figure of speech is used in this line from Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing"?

Answer 1

Choices?

Answer 2

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear
A. anaphora
B. personification
C. onomatopoeia
D. alliteration
E. antithesis

Answer 3

It's one of these choices, which one do you think it is? read the definitions to get the correct answer.

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

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

Alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Answer 4

Eliminated C and E.

Answer 5

Is it A.

Answer 6

Oh sorry Anaphora means, the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they.

Answer 7

I thought it was B but then you defined answer A and B using the same definition so I got confused and chose A.

Answer 8

I'm sorry about that, my copy and past went wrong, but yes it is Personification. You are correct! Again, I am sorry about that!

Answer 9

Thank you

Answer 10

Your welcome! Anytime!