The Poems of William Blake

The Chimney Sweeper [2]

What diction choice in Line 1 conveys most effectively what being a chimney sweep has done to the boy being described. Explain.

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The diction reduces this poor child to, A little black thing among the snow. It is as if the boy is a used object that nobody cares about.

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