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Identify the type of figurative language used in the lines below. O our Mother the Earth, O our Father the Sky.

A) personification
B) hyperbole
C) metaphor
D) simile

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The answer is probably personification, because you are giving the Earth and sky (intimate objects) human traits.

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A) Personification

The mother being the earth is just the author personifying the earth same with the father being the sky

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