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The eighth stanza of Robert Lowell's poem "For the Union Dead" begins: "The monument sticks like a fishbone / in the

city's throat." The two poetic devices used in these lines from the poem are
hyperbole and simile
metaphor and imagery
imagery and hyperbole
simile and personification

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User Tamekia
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Answer:

D. Simile and Personification

Step-by-step explanation:

Simile: like or as

"The monument sticks LIKE a fishbone"

Personification: Human like charecteristic

"in the city's throat."

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