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What literary device is most prominent in this excerpt from Frost's poem, "Out, Out-"?
"Call it a day, I wish they might have said / To please the boy by giving him the half hour /That a boy counts so much when saved from work."
A. simile
B.metaphor
C.antithesis
D.foreshadowing

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Answer:

foreshadowing

Step-by-step explanation:

He is foreshadowing how time is presious, alluding to his later death

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Answer:

C. Antithesis

Step-by-step explanation:

It's not comparing anything so A and B are wrong and it doesn't signify future events so D is wrong

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