No Longer at Ease

What are literary devices in Chinua Achebe's, No Longer at Ease?

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Allusion:

• Obi compares Clara to T.S. Eliot, the famous poet.
• Obi quotes Psalm 107:23 when he says "those that go down to the sea in ships"

Personification:

"The fox must be cleared away first; after that the hen might be warned against wandering into the bush"

Simile:

Soldiers are "as strong as lions because of the injections they were given in the army" (pg. 15)

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No Longer at Ease