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Summer poetry homework help?

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I have some summer homework and I'm stuck. I copied the page below:

CLOSER TO FINE

Im trying to tell you something about my life

Maybe give me insight between black and white

And the best thing youve ever done for me

Is to help me take my life less seriously

Its only life after all

Well darkness has a hunger thats insatiable

And lightness has a call thats hard to hear

I wrap my fear around me like a blanket *

I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it

Im crawling on your shores

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains

I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains

Theres more than one answer to these questions

Pointing me in a crooked line

And the less I seek my source for some definitive *

The closer I am to fine

And I went to see the doctor of philosophy

With a poster of rasputin and a beard down to his knee *

He never did marry or see a b-grade movie

He graded my performance, he said he could see through me

I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind

Got my paper and I was free

I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.

To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend

And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board

Twice as cloudy as Id been the night before

And I went in seeking clarity.

We go to the bible, we go through the workout *

We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout

Theres more than one answer to these questions

Pointing me in a crooked line

The less I seek my source for some definitive

The closer I am to fine

-- emily saliers of the indigo girls

the marked lines are the ones that I can't figure out. It asks what poetic device is being used in the line. Can you figure them out?

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  1. *1 Simile

    *2 Alliteration (the 's')

    *3 Imagery? Symbolism (i.e. the professor is like a crazed Russian cult demagogue)? It's not allusion because it mentions Rasputin outright ... this one's weird

    *4 Repetition

    This wouldn't happen to be multiple choice, would it? :-)

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