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Excerpt from Musicians Wrestle Everywhere

Emily Dickinson

MUSICIANS wrestle everywhere:
All day, among the crowded air,
I hear the silver strife;
And—waking long before the dawn—
Such transport breaks upon the town5
I think it that “new life!"
Which stylistic device is used in line 1?
A) allusion
B) symbolism
C) inversion
D) hyperbole

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it might be B) i’m not sure but it seems more reasonable
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