Read the passage. "It may be you transpire from the breasts of young men, It may be if I had known them I would have loved them. It may be you are from old people, or from offspring taken soon…" Which characteristic of Walt Whitman's poetry is illustrated by the phrase "It may be you"?

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A. regular rhyme

B. regular meter

C. personification

D. repetition

The characteristic of Walt Whitman's poetry illustrated by the phrase "It may be you" is:

D. repetition

Explanation:

Walt Whitman is known as the father of free verse. That means he chose not to worry about regular meter or rhymes in his poetry. With that information, we can already eliminate options A and B.

Personification is a literary device that consists of attributing human traits or behaviors to inanimate objects. The phrase "It may be you" does not illustrate that.

The answer is letter D, repetition. Whitman repeats the phrase "It may be you" in every single line in the excerpt. Repetition is a literary and rhetorical device used for emphasis. It may consist of the repetition of a single word, a phrase, or a whole sentence.

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