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bobbysung

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Which figures of speech can you identify in this song?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Is that figure a metaphor or a simile? Explain
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 20, 2018
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  • The title and the entire premise of the song are an instance of personification, the attribution of human qualitiessuch as, here, the ability to loveto a nonhuman thing. Line 30 contains a metaphor: My love, Im an owl on the sill in the evening. There is an implied metaphor in line 31, where the love object is implicitly compared to a mouse or some similar object of prey for an owl, and a more extended one in lines 1821, in which the speaker and the loved one are implicitly likened to trains.



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  • The statement is made as if it were fact; it is an implied comparison rather than an expressed one, and thus a metaphor.



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Reply 2 on: Jul 20, 2018
Gracias!

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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