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Article Title

A Military Tradition Institutionalized: Rhetorical Personification and Anthropomorphism in "The Riflemen's Creed"

Authors

Mick Howard

Abstract

There are few more iconic pieces of American literary military history than the Marine Corps’ “The Rifleman’s Creed.” Classifying this statement as poetry would not be stretching the term; at the very least, it is certainly poetic: