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What type of figurative language is used in this sentence from james joyce's "the dead"? his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling. metaphor alliteration hyperbole euphemism

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There is 3x an alliteration: soul swooned slowly; falling faintly; faintly falling
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