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Identify the Figures of Speech in the following lines.(a) I stand and look at them long and long.(b) They do not sweat and whine about their condition.(c) They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.(d) ...not one is demented with the mania…

Identify the Figures of Speech in the following lines.
(a) I stand and look at them long and long.
(b) They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
(c) They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.
(d) ...not one is demented with the mania of owning things.
(e) They bring me tokens of myself.
(f) Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

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  1. Repetition (‘long and long’); also Alliteration of the ‘l’ sound
  2. Alliteration (the ‘th’ sound in ‘They’, ‘their’); the line indirectly contrasts animals with complaining humans
  3. Alliteration (the ‘d’ sound in ‘do’, ‘discussing’, ‘duty’)
  4. Hyperbole (exaggeration of man’s greed as madness)
  5. Metaphor (‘tokens’ stand for the virtues the poet has lost)
  6. Hyperbole (‘over the whole earth’)
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