Question
Read the excerpt from “I Am Offering This Poem.”
It’s all I have to give,
and all anyone needs to live,
and to go on living inside,
when the world outside
no longer cares if you live or die;
remember,
I love you.
In the first two lines of the excerpt, what literary device calls attention to the idea that poetry and love are all anyone needs to survive?
a simile
a metaphor
rhyme
repetition
It’s all I have to give,
and all anyone needs to live,
and to go on living inside,
when the world outside
no longer cares if you live or die;
remember,
I love you.
In the first two lines of the excerpt, what literary device calls attention to the idea that poetry and love are all anyone needs to survive?
a simile
a metaphor
rhyme
repetition
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The literary device that calls attention to the idea that poetry and love are all anyone needs to survive in the first two lines of the excerpt is **repetition**. The phrase "all I have to give" and "all anyone needs" emphasizes the essential nature of what is being offered—poetry and love.
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