When the narrator of the autobiography of an ex-colored man says he would rather walk to jacksonville than ride in the porter’s closet on the train, what literary device is he using?

personification
simile
metaphor
satire

nambe vazhkaile elam nala irukum

even though there may be variations in human emotions over time, the poem “ a contribution to statistics” by wislawa symborska suggests that the only unchangeable characteristic is mortality.

the author poses a distinction between the approximate and non-approximate numbers which correspond to our need for certainty in life and the difficulty of achieving it. our efforts to measure the exact often fail because the world is not always clearly structured .the poem seems to imply   that the only thing that is certain and has an exact number is death.  

if i were to do that, my files would be my traits, grief, happiness, madness, and my memories.