Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

Little lamb, who made thee?
Does thou know who made thee…

(“The Lamb,” lines 1-2)

Which literary device does William Blake use in this passage from “The Lamb”?

apostrophe
personification
simile
synecdoche

Answer 1

The most likely answer is personification

Step-by-step explanation:

Although I thought that personification was giving human characteristics to an object it by definition could work with anything non-human including animals. Because Blake is asking the Lamb questions as if it can respond which is human quality