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“Which of the following literary techniques does Byron employee in the line “a heart whose love is innocent!” And “she walks in beauty?” And saying the

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The answer is that both phrases use IDIOM as the principal literary technique.

An idiom is a figure of speech that consists of a phrase that means something other than its literal meaning.

In the first sentence, Byron refers to a person who truly loves by means of the expression: "a heart whose love is innocent!". In the second sentence, Byron speaks of a woman being beautiful through the expression "she walks in beauty?"


However, we find other literary techniques:

A heart whose love is innocent

- The first rhetorical figure is a metonymy. / a heart /

Metonymy is a rhetorical figure of thought that consists of designating one thing with the name of another with which there is a relation of spatial contiguity. In this case, the part / the heart / for the whole / the person / is named /

- The second rhetorical figure is a personification/love is innocent /

The personification is a rhetorical figure that consists of attributing human qualities to substantive non-human ones. In this case, the abstract noun love is attributed to the human quality of innocence.

She walks in beauty

- The rhetorical figure of this fragment is a metaphor. A metaphor is a figure of speech, which compares two things without the use of 'like' or 'as'.

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