In donne's holy sonnet x, the speaker claims that death must die. this is an example of what literary device

- Personification.

Explanation:

Personification is exemplified as one of the most commonly employed literary devices that primarily intends to provide humanly or human like attributes to a an inanimate object, idea, or animal in order to explain or clarify its meaning.

In the given excerpt from Donne's 'Holy Sonnet X', Donne employs 'personification' and provide human characteristics to the idea of 'death' to elucidate to the readers that the 'mighty' and 'atrocious' death(personified) will have to give up and 'must die' before our firm faith and belief. He says that 'death, be not proud' and 'death must die' to exemplify his point. Thus, 'personification' is the literary device.

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