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What figure of speech is used in this line from Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing"?

What figure of speech is used in this line from Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing"?
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What figure of speech is used in this line from Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing"?

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Personification, Walt Whitman is personifying the land that is America and giving it the qualities of a person, in saying that it is singing. Therefore the figure of speech used is personification.
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