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Which of the following best describes the effect of the personification used in lines 10-13?


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Sorry Okay AP English people were still in this excellent

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poem Which of the following best describes the effect of

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the personification used in lines ten through thirteen ten to

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fifteen months Just stare at them A moment of love

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of love about Okay Well throughout the poem the narrator's

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talking about love's death So the key line here is

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he left us He would not stay That's not how

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we usually talk about death that someone would not stay

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Usually it's like Well he really super did not want

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to die but then it happened anyway He shouldn't have

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been texting while driving Yeah so this line suggests a

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certain level of willingness there So it's see it suggests

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that love is choosing to die you know very dark

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So it see The unusual phrasing implies that Love's death

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might have been somewhat voluntary which means it wasn't well

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entirely inevitable Get rid of A That information may be

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surprising but isn't contradictory like me would have you do

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because the narrator never declares the opposite And it doesn't

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alter the narrator's perception like D would have you be

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because he doesn't give a clear perception to begin with

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right Well these lines definitely contrast to seasons like B

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would have you d'Oh But that doesn't best describe the

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effect of the personification So that's it The answer is 00:01:28.23 --> [endTime] C Oh

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