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Read this excerpt from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

[1] Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
[2] The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
[3] And bathed every veyne in swich licour
[4] Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
[5] Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
[6] Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
[7] The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
[8] Hath in the Ram his half cours yronne,

Which literary device is used in line 5?

Responses

irony


personification


a non-standard rhyme scheme


alliteration

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Answer:

The literary device used in line 5 is personification.

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