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Question
Identify Shakespeare's use of personification in the poem.
Solution
Use of personification
- When wasteful war shall statues
- And broils root out the work of masonry.
- Here war and broils are shown to have powerful hands that are capable of causing destruction.
- Your praise shall still find room.
Praise has been shown as a person taking his place somewhere.
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