Isend you three grey cats with gifts—
(for uniformity of metaphor,
since bacchus, satan, and the hangman
are not contemporaneous in my mythology)
i send you three grey cats with gifts,
queen guinevere,
to warn you, sleekly, silently
to pay the forfeit.

source: seiffert, marjorie allen. “the king sends three cats to guinevere.” blackcatpoems. com. black cat poems, n. d. web. 7 july 2011.

which poetic device does the speaker use in the line, “since bacchus, satan, and the hangman”?

are there answer choices to this particular question?

line 5 is one of them idk the other one

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.