Native Son

What are some literary devices in Native Son?

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Verbal Irony:

'If you wasn't black and if you had some money and if they'd let you go to that aviation school, you could fly a plane.'

'It's funny how the white folks treat us, ain't it?'

Personification:

Outside his window he saw the sun dying over the rooftops in the western sky and watched the first shade of dusk fall.

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Native Son