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Which figure of speech does Thoreau use to show how loud the bird was in the sentence: "The cockerels crow on the trees, clear and piercing for miles over the resounding earth! It would put nations on
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Which figure of speech does Thoreau use to show how loud the bird was in the sentence: "The cockerels crow on the trees, clear and piercing for miles over the resounding earth! It would put nations on the alert."?

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Maybe a hyperbole, since a crow cannot have a voice so loud to put nations on alert
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Thoreau uses "clear and piercing." to show how loud the bird was.

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