English Tutor | Reputations

It is extended metaphor where a little house represent the world.

It is none of these. It is actually epanalepsis that means to repeat the initial part of the clause or sentence at the end of it. See that "I am not what I am" repeats "I am" at the end.

This is alliteration of /t/ sounds as it comes in quick succession.

There are two consonances of /d/ and /l/ sounds.

Both are metaphors.

Yes, it is a metaphor as the eyes are being compared to mouths having "hellos" in them.

Check citation in your extreme right corner in the ribbon.

It is the same. As the word order is reversed, it is chaismus.

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It is a metaphor. If you associate it with the previous and other lines, it shows that the poet has compared anger with a plant.

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