Question

The underlined part from the poem “Tonight I Can Write” is an example of which literary device?

"the stars are blue and shiver in the distance"

Answer 1

The underlined part from the poem “Tonight I Can Write” is an example of the literary device "personification." Personification is a figure of speech in which human qualities and emotions are attributed to non-human things. In this case, the stars are given the human quality of shivering.