Abe Lincoln Grows Up | Literary Qualities
The most outstanding literary characteristic of this work is the language. Sandburg's prose often flows like his free verse poetry. A figurative device that Sandburg frequently uses in both poetry and prose is personification—that is, the endowment of an inanimate object with human qualities. For example, in chapter 10, Sandburg hypothesizes: "He [Abe] might have asked the moon, 'What do you see?' And the moon might have told him many things." The extensive description of all that the moon might have witnessed in the past few years helps the reader to see and feel the current of life...
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