Homework Help: Language arts

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 10:48pm.

In Richard Brautigan's poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace", what kind of figures of speech does he use? I know one of them is sarcasm, but I can't figure out if there are any more...

Language arts - Writeacher, Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 7:03am
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/

Satire is a literary term, but sarcasm is not.

Look through all these definitions and see what you find. Generally, the most commonly used in all literature are these, so check these out first:
simile
metaphor
alliteration
assonance
synecdoche
personification
hyberbole

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