In Robert Frost's poem "Out, Out-" Frost uses various types of literary devices, but the most prominent are metaphors. Metaphors are when a word or set of words is used to replace the item. In the poem mentioned Frost uses; "Call it a day" meaning to be done with work; "He must have given the hand" to mean that the boy's hand went into the saw; "The life from spilling", the boy's blood ; "He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath," which is his dying breath; and "No more to build on there", the child's life is over.
Frost could have said things in an ordinary way but he used metaphors which add grace and beauty to his poem.
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