What figure(s) of speech is (are) used in these lines from a poem about a young horse?
and we saw him, or thought we saw
him, dim and gray, like a shadow against the curtain of falling flakes.
from “the runaway” by robert frost

Xaviar would like go quote text from a written book. the authors name is on the book. how should he quote the text in his paper?

How can a musical work be an argument

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