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Of men that live among cattle ...
Of builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of
axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses ...

The excerpt from "Song Of Myself " by Walt Whitman is an example of ______.

A.Diction
B.Anaphora
C.A Catalogue
D.Onomatopoeia     The Answer Is Catalogue .

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The answer is anaphora
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I believe the answer to be C. catalogue.

Step-by-step explanation:

Diction is basically the writing style of an author, determined by his choice of words. Anaphora consists of the repetition of a part of a sentence with the purpose of emphasizing an idea or its importance. Onomatopoeia refers to words that represent a sound by imitating it. None of those options related to the excerpt we are studying here:

Of men that live among cattle ...

Of builders and steerers of ships and the wielders of

axes and mauls, and the drivers of horses ...

Even though there is some repetition in the excerpt, it does not constitute an anaphora. It consists merely of the preposition "of", not a phrase. What we can note, however, is that the author is making a list of things and people with the purpose of creating a rhetorical effect. That is what we call a catalogue. This rhetorical device is constantly used by Walt Whitman in "Song of Myself" since he tries to list the things that he loves - the whole world - while he celebrates.

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