To+My+Dear

=Literary Devices used in "To my Dear and Loving Husband" by, Anne Bradstreet=


 * Imagery**- with "My love is such that Rivers cannot quench" because its obvious that rivers won't quench her love, that's simply impossible. Yet this helps draw a picture that will be seen in your head and thus __create an image__.


 * Paradox-** you can see the __CONTRADICTION__ in "Then while we live in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever." You can see how Bradstreet first says of living no more and then continues to say live ever. They correlate for theya re opposites.


 * Allusion-** Although this may not have been as obvious in the following example you can see how Bradstreet makes a reference to __OUR house__, which she assumes we all know what it is. "Framed by that mighty Architect Upon the Burning of Our House."

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