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What language feature / device is this an example of?

What language feature / device are the following an example of?
1) "... showed Brick Lane as a unit pushing back against the battles of it's past"
2) "it will lose the very things, the very people"
3) "tainted by an air of deprivation"
Thank you :smile:
(edited 3 years ago)
Unsure but my guess is
1. Personification
2. Repetition
3. Metaphor
Personification
Repetition
Metaphor
Original post by tinygirl96
Personification
Repetition
Metaphor


Original post by linedpaper
Unsure but my guess is
1. Personification
2. Repetition
3. Metaphor

thank you for replying, but could the second one pass as an anaphora as well?
Original post by kittymityyy
thank you for replying, but could the second one pass as an anaphora as well?

Yeah true... I haven't written about anaphora in so long I forgot what it was :tongue:

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