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What are some examples of figurative language in the poem Monologue an Onion?

* Simile: "But I am still here, like a small pearl"

* Metaphor: "I am like a little onion,

Sitting in the sun"

* Personification: "The sun smiles down on me,

And the wind whispers in my ear"

* Alliteration: "I am a little onion,

Small and round and brown"

* Assonance: "I am like a little onion,

Sitting in the sun"

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