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When the green wood laughs with the voice of joy,

And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;

When the air does laugh with our merry wit,

And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;

When the meadows laugh with lively green,

And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene;


Which literary device is primarily used in the first six lines of this poem?

A) hyperbole

B) metaphor

C) paradox

D) personification

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Personification giving non human things emotions such as a hill laughing when obviously a hill can’t laugh
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This would be d) personification because it is giving objects such as a hill, human like qualities such as laughing
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