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Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.                           (1x3= 3) I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. (a) What is the meaning of the poet by 'silver and exact'? (b) What is the poetic device used in the stanza? (c) What is the synonym of 'preconception'?

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  (a) It means that the mirror is clean and shows only the truth. (b) The poetic device used here is personification. (c) It is 'prejudice'.