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How Does Frost Used To Explain The Tone Of Birches

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In the story “Birches” Frost uses many literary devices to explain the tone of the story. I believe he is explaining how the trees are low because the boys have been swinging on them. He is explaining what happens to the trees with color and weather change. He uses metaphors, similes, and personification to explain the tone of the story. First, Frost uses a metaphor to explain the tone of story. “To the top branches, climbing carefully with the same pains you use to fill a cup up to the brim.” The metaphor is explaining how he kept his poise. The metaphors frost uses are to explain what the trees are doing or what people are doing to the trees. Second, similes are used throughout the story. Frost says “they click upon themselves as the
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