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Which poetic techniques are illustrated in the opening lines “I am fourteen/and my skin has betrayed me/the boy I cannot live without/still sucks his thumb/in secret”?

alliteration and metaphor
allusion and alliteration
apostrophe and simile
personification and enjambment

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Alliteration and metaphor
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