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Which literary device is used in these lines from the poem "Alone" by Maya Angelou?



Where water is not thirsty

And bread loaf is not stone




simile




personification




irony




allusion

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larnelle48

personification for the first line where water is given human qualities and simile for the comparison of bread and stone
 

antonsandiego

The device which is being used in the lines represented above is definitely personification. The word ''thirsty'' usually describes the state of alive beings, so water there obtains a human meaning which is common for personification characteristics.

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