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Excerpted from "hope is the thing with feathers" by emily dickinson [2] and sweetest���in the gale���is heard��� and sore must be the storm��� that could abash the little bird that kept so many warm��� [3] i've heard it in the chillest land��� and on the strangest sea��� yet, never, in extremity, it asked a crumb���of me. in the last stanza, the author writes that the little bird " a crumb of me" what type of figurative language is evident in these lines? a. onomatopoeia b. alliteration c. assonance d. personification

Fortify is a verb that means “to protect and strengthen.” a fortifications is a that means something that protects.

In the excerpt above, what can be inferred by the statement, "the dillingham had been flung to the breeze during aformer period of prosperity.?