Which literary device is used in these lines from the poem "Alone" by Maya Angelou? Where water is not thirsty And bread loaf is not stone simile personification irony allusion

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Which literary device is used in these lines from the poem "Alone" by Maya Angelou?

Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone

simile

personification

irony

allusion

English
high-school

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I think that is personification as you are giving a non living thing a living trait, if I'm wrong correct me.

Baris Akar answered Oct 20, 2017

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