Invictus Rhetorical Devices

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The poem Invictus is a Latin word for unconquered which is by William Ernest Henley. In this poem, there are rhetorical devices such as simile, personification, anaphora and metaphor which helps the meaning of this writing. The first two stanzas contain two personification. In lines 1 and 2, "out of the night that covers me" and "black as the pit" presents the concept in a human context in order to make it more relatable and vivid. It is portraying the night being very dark because it used "black" and "pit" which shows what it looks like. Personification is shown in line 5, " in the fell clutch of circumstance" which presents a human characteristic to be able to show a vivid image because of the words "circumstance" and "clutch. The word "clutch"