David Alcmena's Nights And Job Irony

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Parallelism is used when talking about adversity, misery, and time to emphasize their importance and connect all of them, which creates a clear sentence for the reader and is easy to read.

The personification of “time” and “avarice” creates a lifelike view of time and avarice, which caused the reader to understand and relate easily to the idea that time goes by and when we strive for wealth, death becomes nearer.

The allusion of “David,” “Alcmena’s nights,” and “Job” connects to other ideas of misery being hard to overcome as well as to help with the comprehension of the meaning of the passage, which is that death is inevitable but difficulties make people stronger.

Simile is used to compare life to an abortion to relate the two to each

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