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Which figures of speech appear in this excerpt from John Keats’s “Ode to Autumn”?


Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?

Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find

Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,

Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;


simile

personification

alliteration

allusion

apostrophe

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meerkat18

The answer is PERSONIFICATION. 

In this line, 'Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind,' the author referred the action of the wind to something that is human. PERSONIFICATION refers to a figure of speech wherein an object represents or embodies a human quality.

Macarioleb

Answer: The answers are personification and alliteration

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