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"...watching the trees at the edge of town that reluctantly moved to the slow wind. The palms beyond them were still, as if awaiting something." What literary device is used in these lines, and what is the effect of this literary device?

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The literary device used in the poem is Personification. The effect of personification is that it gives trees and palms human-like character and bring human life to them.

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Personification is that figure of speech that renders non-human character human form by way of comparison. Therefore, non-human characters are given a humanistic form which helps the readers understand the character better and even sometimes empathize with them. In Personification human qualities and features are given to non-human entities which eventually allow them to compare their different feature and character. This subsequently allows them to be understood better by the readers and the audience at large. Personification is the most common literary device which is used by writers and poets, in particular, to express their ideas and visions better and more specifically. All together there are about ten literary devices which are also called figures of speech of which personification stands out to be the most important one. In the given lines "...watching the trees at the edge of town that reluctantly moved to the slow wind. The palms beyond them were still as if awaiting something", the poet had tried to personify trees with the human that moved very hesitantly while the palms were unmoved.

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either a donut or a sphere or a pancake or a flat sphere. it depends on where the vertical line is.

if the line goes through the center of the circle and is perpendicular to a diameter containing the center, then you get a flat circle.

if the line and the diameter of a the circle meet in the center of the diameter and at an angle, you get a pancake.

if the line is on the circumference of the circle and is at right angles to the circle you get a ring.

if the line contains the diameter, you get a sphere.

the the line is parallel to the diameter and touches the circumference, you get a donut.

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