Rita Dove: Poems

What is the poetic devices used in this poem? URGENT!!

Chocolate

Velvet fruit, exquisite square I hold up to sniff between finger and thumb – how you numb me with your rich attentions! If I don’t eat you quickly, you’ll melt in my palm. Pleasure seeker, if i let you you’d liquefy everywhere. Knotted smoke, dark punch of earth and night and leaf, for a taste of you any woman would gladly crumble to ruin. Enough chatter: I am ready to fall in love! HELP, I NEED TO KNOW WHAT POETIC DEVICES IS USED AND WHY?
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Personification:

.....how you numb me with your rich attentions!

......Pleasure seeker, if i let you you’d liquefy everywhere.

Hyperbole:

....for a taste of you any woman would gladly crumble to ruin. Enough chatter: I am ready to fall in love!

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