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Match the excerpt of Lowell's "For the Union Dead with the appropriate poetic device.

imagery
1. "a savage servility/ slides by on grease
2. "for the dark downward and vegetating kingdom"
alliteration
3. "The monument sticks like a fishbone
personification
4.
"William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes
breathe."
simile

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The monument sticks like a fish bone because its personification
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