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In Seamus Heaney's famous poem 'Digging', which poetic devices are prominent in lines like 'Under my window, a clean rasping sound / When the spade sinks into gravelly ground'?
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- 1Simile and personification
- 2Hyperbole and metaphor
- 3Onomatopoeia and alliteration✓
- 4Metaphor and simile
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Onomatopoeia and alliteration
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