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I need help with english! figurative devices!?

i need a example for all of these but the theme has to be about depression.....like...personification... The knife called my name.

i need one for each of these...

PUN:

APOSTROPHE:

METONYMY:

SYMBOL:

VERBAL IRONY:

Update:

i know what these things mean but i just cant think of a example for them

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    A really good resource for this is the New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Your library probably has it. It defines all kinds of literary terms.

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