In the phrase "I haven’t seen you in forever," we can identify a couple of the literary devices:
- Hyperbole: This is an exaggeration for emphasis. Saying "forever" implies an extremely long time, even if the actual time wasn’t that long.
The other devices you mentioned (personification, onomatopoeia, idiom, alliteration) are not evident in this phrase. Here’s a brief explanation of each:
- Personification: Giving human traits to non-human entities.
- Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate sounds (e.g., "buzz," "sizzle").
- Idiom: A phrase whose meaning is not deducible from the literal meanings of its words (e.g., "kick the bucket" means to die).
- Alliteration: The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.
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