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    This document analyzes the figures of speech used in 8 stanzas of a poem about a ship at sea during a storm. It identifies the literary devices of repetition, personification, alliteration, inversion, antithesis, and anaphora used to describe the unmoving ship and the raging ocean around it. The summary provides the context and analyzes the key literary devices used without directly copying from the document.

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    This document analyzes the figures of speech used in 8 stanzas of a poem about a ship at sea during a storm. It identifies the literary devices of repetition, personification, alliteration, inversion, antithesis, and anaphora used to describe the unmoving ship and the raging ocean around it. The summary provides the context and analyzes the key literary devices used without directly copying from the document.

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    This document analyzes the figures of speech used in 8 stanzas of a poem about a ship at sea during a storm. It identifies the literary devices of repetition, personification, alliteration, inversion, antithesis, and anaphora used to describe the unmoving ship and the raging ocean around it. The summary provides the context and analyzes the key literary devices used without directly copying from the document.

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    Figure of Speech Inchcape Rock

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    This document analyzes the figures of speech used in 8 stanzas of a poem about a ship at sea during a storm. It identifies the literary devices of repetition, personification, alliteration, inversion, antithesis, and anaphora used to describe the unmoving ship and the raging ocean around it. The summary provides the context and analyzes the key literary devices used without directly copying from the document.

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    Figures of Speech

    Stanza 1-4
    1) No stir in the air, no stir in the sea Repetition- The word 'no stir' is repeated. Alliteration -
    The sound of letters 'n' & 's' are repeated.

    2) The ship was still as she could be Personification - The ship is personified. Alliteration -
    The sound of letter 'sh' is repeated.

    3) Her sails from heaven received no motion Alliteration- The sound of letter 'h' is

    repeated. Personification - The ship is personified. Inversion - The word order is changed.
    The correct order- Her sails received no motion from heaven.

    4) Her keel was steady in the ocean. Personification- The ship is personified.

    5) So little they rose, so little they fell Repetition-The word 'little' is repeated. Antithesis -
    Opposite words (rose and fell)

    are used.

    Anti-climax -The words are arranged in descending order.

    Personification - The waves are personified.

    6) On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung

    Inversion - The word order is changed. It floated and swung on a buoy in the storm.
    Alliteration - The sound of letter 's' is

    repeated.
    7) And over the waves its warning rung. Alliteration - The sound 'w' is repeated.
    Personification - The waves are personified.

    8) When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell Alliteration -The sound of letter 's' is
    repeated.
    Personification - The rock is personified
    Stanza 5- 8
    1) The sun in heaven was shining gay.

    Inversion-The words are not in a correct order. The line should be as - The sun was shining
    gay in heaven.

    2) The sea-birds scream'd as they wheel's around.

    Alliteration- The sound of letter 's' is repeated.

    3) It made him whistle, it made him sing.

    Repetition- The words 'it made him' repeated.

    Anaphora- It made him these words are repeated at the beginning of the line.

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