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Question:I failed my poetry test because i didn't get this question

1. Find at least 4 literary devices that the author usess
a. name them
b. give the sentence in which they are used

my teacher will let me re do it for partial credit
help please


Good-bye my Fancy!
Farewell dear mate, dear love!
I'm going away, I know not where,
Or to what fortune, or whether I may ever see you again,
So Good-bye my Fancy.
Now for my last--let me look back a moment;
The slower fainter ticking of the clock is in me,
Exit, nightfall, and soon the heart-thud stopping.
Long have we lived, joy'd, caress'd together;
Delightful!--now separation--Good-bye my Fancy.
Yet let me not be too hasty,
Long indeed have we lived, slept, filter'd, become really blended
into one;
Then if we die we die together, (yes, we'll remain one,)
If we go anywhere we'll go together to meet what happens,
May-be we'll be better off and blither, and learn something,
May-be it is yourself now really ushering me to the true songs, (who
knows?)
May-be it is you the mortal knob really undoing, turning--so now finally,
Good-bye--and hail! my Fancy.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I failed my poetry test because i didn't get this question

1. Find at least 4 literary devices that the author usess
a. name them
b. give the sentence in which they are used

my teacher will let me re do it for partial credit
help please


Good-bye my Fancy!
Farewell dear mate, dear love!
I'm going away, I know not where,
Or to what fortune, or whether I may ever see you again,
So Good-bye my Fancy.
Now for my last--let me look back a moment;
The slower fainter ticking of the clock is in me,
Exit, nightfall, and soon the heart-thud stopping.
Long have we lived, joy'd, caress'd together;
Delightful!--now separation--Good-bye my Fancy.
Yet let me not be too hasty,
Long indeed have we lived, slept, filter'd, become really blended
into one;
Then if we die we die together, (yes, we'll remain one,)
If we go anywhere we'll go together to meet what happens,
May-be we'll be better off and blither, and learn something,
May-be it is yourself now really ushering me to the true songs, (who
knows?)
May-be it is you the mortal knob really undoing, turning--so now finally,
Good-bye--and hail! my Fancy.

Well, the whole thing is an apostrophe, which is when a speaker addresses a person or thing that is not there and speaks to it/him/her.

It uses parallelism in the part where it says, "Then if we die together...If we go anywhere we will go together" This is a parallel structure utilizing the word together.

There's some form of personification. In the line "Exit, nightfall" it's personfiying nightfall by telling it to exit. The mortal knob turning is personification.

Ticking is an onomatopeia since it is a word that represents a sound

There you go! four literary devices used. I bet there's more too :)