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What figure of speech has been used in this line from The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot? Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers

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the answer is personification.

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"kept us warm, covering" is a metaphor for a blanket "feeding a little life with dried tubers" is another metaphor as though a plant with roots
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