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Don T Kill Yourself By Carlos Richmond The Andrade

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Figures of speech (or figurative language) are used to help to say something without saying it directly and the most well-known are simile, metaphor, and personification. As an example of simile, a comparison of one thing to another, is the first stanza of the poem “To Helen” above: Helen, thy beauty is to me/ Like those Nicean barks of yore, […]. As an example of metaphor, a comparison of one thing to another but saying that one thing is another thing, the poem “Don’t kill yourself” by Carlos Drummond the Andrade, in the lines 24, 25 and 26 says: You’re the palm tree, you’re the cry/ nobody heard in the theatre/ and all the lights went out. Finally, as an example of personification, in the lines 12 and 13: Love, Carlos, tellurian,/spent the
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