What are some figures of speech in Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?

's powerful
and evocative poem, " in a Country
Churchyard," employs a Neo-classical form while
demonstrating poetic
techniques of Romanticism. Gray's elegy is written in heroic quatrains of a

lofty tone--a stanza of four lines of iambic pentameter having the rhyme

scheme abab. It ends with an epitaph, a poetic inscription intended
to be
on a gravestone. 

Below are some figures of speech
that this poem
employs. 

:
the attribution of human traits to
non-human or inanimate objects

• In stanza 9: "Let
  not Ambition mock
  their useful tool." Ambition is capitalized as
  though it were a name, and it
  "mocks," which is a human trait.
• In
  stanza 9: "The
  boast of heraldry, the pomp of
  
  power,/ And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave." "Boast" and
  "pomp"
  are human characteristics.
• In stanza 11:
  "Flattery" can
  "soothe," and "Death" possesses a "cold
  ear." "Flattery" is given the human
  ability to soothe; Death is mentioned as a
  person who possesses an ear and
  refuses to hear.
• In stanza 12:
  "Hands" might have been
  "swayed"--(persuaded). Hands are a human trait, and
  people
  persuade.
• In stanza 13: "Knowledge to their eyes her
  ample
  page." The feminine pronoun her is used with the
  quality of knowledge,
  thus affording it human qualities.


• In stanza 22: "Forgetfulness"
  is "dumb." Because most objects and
  living things are mute, making it notable that
  something or someone is unable
  to speak is personification.
• In stanza 23:
  "The voice of
  Nature." Nature is likened to a person who speaks.

: (often) an unstated comparison of two
unlike
things; one thing is spoken of as though it were something
else

• In
  stanza 9: "The boast of heraldry"
  (noble descent, wealth and power) and "the
  paths of glory" (honor and
  distinction) "lead but to the grave." Gray makes
  unstated comparisons of
  noble descent to the possession of wealth, power, and "paths of
  glory" to
  distinction.
• In stanza 15: "The little tyrant of his
  
  fields withstood." Here, Gray alludes to the unknown poor who are buried in the
  churchyard
  and the possibility that some of them may have been infamous or
  great if they had been of a
  higher social station and of notable names. The
  farmer, for instance, is likened in an unstated
  comparison to a "tyrant."
  Also, another buried in this forgotten churchyard may have
  been "Some mute
  inglorious Milton," and still another may have been "Some
  
  Cromwell."

: The repetition
of
consonant sounds in a line of poetry

• In
  stanza 9, the /p/ is
  repeated-- "the pomp of power"
• In
  stanza 22, the /l/ is
  repeated-- "Nor cast one longing lingering look
  behind?"
• In
  stanza 25, the /h/ is repeated, as is
  /s/: "Haply some hoary-headed swain may
  say."