Rhetorical Devices In Invictus By William Ernest Henley

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William Ernest Henley, the author of the poem "Invictus", uses rhetorical devices such as simile, personification, and metaphor that allows the reader to know the concept from another view.
In the first quatrain of the poem, it is written in iambic tetrameter. In the beginning of the poem it describes how things happen but through it all he will remain strong. "Out of the night that covers me black and the pit". This shows that whatever thing are said of have been done that he thanks God for whatever his fate is to be. In the second stanza, Henley uses personification. "In the fell clutch of circumstance." Saying that "circumstance has a claw", but is actually trying to talk about the pain and consequences.
In the second quatrain the author
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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"…

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