Take a look at this Maya Angelou stanza: “You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies / You may trod me in the very dirt / But still, like dust, I rise”. Which technique is not employed here?
The birth of the beautiful Crab Nebula was actually witnessed and recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054! They marked it as a "guest star" which was later identified as the supernova which created the nebula.