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Question

"Remember, no men are foreign and no countries strange". "Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign". What is the Literary Device employed here?

The correct answer is

Repetition

The same opening words and vocabulary are used across both lines, with only the order of "foreign" and "strange" reversed for emphasis. Reusing the same words this way to stress the poet's message is marked here as repetition.

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