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Wisława SzymborskaThe End and the Beginning
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 2001A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Literary Device Answers
1. Anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
2. D. Metaphor is an exact comparison between two unrelated things for dramatic or poetic effect. Here, Szymborska compares the grass to new growth and life beyond the traumas of the past.
3. A. Alliteration is the repetition of the first letter of two adjacent or near-adjacent words.
4. A. The cameras and the removal of them in Lines 18-21 indicate the presence of the news media depicting the violence of the war (“Photogenic, it’s not,” Line 18). Lines 20-21 (“All of the cameras have left / for another war.”) indicate the circularity of war.
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By Wisława Szymborska
