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    The document summarizes the key literary devices used in the poem "The Laburnum Top". It identifies alliteration, similes, metaphors, personification, and transferred epithets as techniques employed. Specifically, it provides examples of repetitive consonant sounds, comparisons of the tree movement to a machine and lizard, attribution of human traits to the tree, and an adjectival phrase applied to a different noun than expected. The summary captures the high-level purpose and key details in a concise 3 sentences.

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    The document summarizes the key literary devices used in the poem "The Laburnum Top". It identifies alliteration, similes, metaphors, personification, and transferred epithets as techniques employed. Specifically, it provides examples of repetitive consonant sounds, comparisons of the tree movement to a machine and lizard, attribution of human traits to the tree, and an adjectival phrase applied to a different noun than expected. The summary captures the high-level purpose and key details in a concise 3 sentences.

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    The Laburnum Top Literary Devices

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    aanya jain
    The document summarizes the key literary devices used in the poem "The Laburnum Top". It identifies alliteration, similes, metaphors, personification, and transferred epithets as techniques employed. Specifically, it provides examples of repetitive consonant sounds, comparisons of the tree movement to a machine and lizard, attribution of human traits to the tree, and an adjectival phrase applied to a different noun than expected. The summary captures the high-level purpose and key details in a concise 3 sentences.

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    The Laburnum Top Literary Devices

    1. Alliteration - repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of two or


    more consecutive words. The instances of alliteration in the poem are as
    follows-
    September sunlight
    tree trembles
     
    2. Simile – comparison between two things using like or as.
    Sleek as a lizard
     
    3. Metaphor – an indirect comparison between two things. Generally, a
    quality is compared.
    “She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up” - the noise created
    by the movement of the birds is compared to the machine’s noise
    “It is the engine of her family.”
    “Showing her barred face identity mask”
     
    4. Personification – the attribution of personal nature characteristics to
    something non-human
    The whole tree trembles and thrills.
     
    5. Transferred Epithet – the figure of speech where the adverb is
    transferred to another noun
    her barred face identity mask

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