mit 5 Test: Selected and Short Response (Online)
Language Development: Conventions and Style
Identify the choice that best answers the question.
Read this stanza from William Wordsworth's poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,"
in which the speaker describes some daffodils by the water.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
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In the underlined text, the poet employs the device of
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