answersLogoWhite

0

🎒

Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

Includes questions related to rules and methods used in literature and using words, terms and sentences in figurative or nonliteral ways;

500 Questions

Could you give examples of figurative language in Maroo of the Winter Cave?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Could you give examples of figurative language in Maroo of the Winter Cave?

What is the official name for the dot over the letter i?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

It is called a tittle
The tittle first appeared in Latin manuscripts in the 11th century, to distinguish the letter i from strokes of nearby letters. Although originally a larger mark, it was reduced to a dot when Roman-style typefaces were introduced.
tittle
According to Oxford Dictionaries, the dot above the letters i and j are called superscript dots.

What rhetorical device attacks the individual instead of the argument?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Ad hominem is the name of the rhetorical device and informal fallacy that attacks the arguer instead of the arguer. In this device, the ad hominem attacker attempts to dismiss the argument by pointing out personal flaws or characteristics of the arguer.

Do you eat to live or live to eat?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

The terms, "eat to live" or "live to eat" are focused on quite the extremes in regards to life and food. Without understanding the context to which majority of us humans live and eat, it is easy to get into a debate as to whether humans eat to live or live to eat.

Today, food is something we take for granted on a daily basis, three times a day, often failing to acknowledge or understand where it comes from or the amount of work it takes to get it. As such, those who eat to live, as many wild animals in the animal kingdom do, know how much work and life goes into finding food to eat in order to live. Such animals are often the predatory animals of the Animal Kingdom, such as wolves, cougars, bears, eagles, hawks, owls, tigers, spiders, whales, ants, and ladybugs.

Then you have the non-predatory animals that often find food almost everywhere they go. Herbivorous animals such as buffalo, deer, aphids, cattle, horses, sheep, rhinos, hippos, and antelope are such animals that fall into this category. One can say that such animals "live to eat," however when looking at elephants travelling across a land faced with a serious drought crisis and starvation such a saying would be tipped in the favor of "eating to live."

This question, however, is not dealing with such non-human animals as above, but rather the human animal. Pertaining such question to a single species with a highly diverse array of social hierarchies and living conditions which they are found in is almost impossible to answer without acknowledging such diversity. When acknowledging such diversity, such as from the rich to the poor, from those who live the most sustainably or "off the grid" to those who do not, and from those with severe eating disorders to those who are completely normal in terms of the food they consume, one can begin to see the gray area between "eating to live" and "living to eat." One could easily come to the conclusion that some humans eat to live, others live to eat, and many more are somewhere in between.

Eating is a ritual by many cultures, a three-times-a-day meal, one that, as mentioned above, is taken for granted on a daily basis. There are feasts, and fasts, and just a regular meal to buy or make. Some eat too much (which others call "gluttony"), while others eat too little. Some have more than enough money to buy food to last a lifetime, while others don't have enough to even buy a loaf of bread to feed a family of 10. Few are lucky enough to have the resources available to get their own food from the most primary resources they have available without even having to spend a dime; many others have to constantly and consistently rely on the money in their pockets to purchase what they want to eat.

So do we really eat to live or live to eat? That all depends on you, your lifestyle, how much money you make, your culture, your psychology as far as wanting to eat is concerned, and many, many others. No one answer is right, nor is one answer is wrong: each and every one of us has our own reasons as to which answer we feel is right for this question.

Are there slogans for animals?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

The best slogan around about stray animals is the following: "Within the heart of every stray lies the singular desire to be loved."

What is a humorous play on words that has more than one meaning?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

You must mean pun, but that word does not refer to multiple meanings. A pun is using a word, or making one up, that sounds like the word that's expected. For example, there is an expression "No news is good news." It means we haven't anything to worry about that we know of. So, a condemned man gets a reprieve from hanging, and he says "No noose is good news." Ho ho. It's good because it makes new sense using the wrong word.

What are some words with the prefix fact?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

factory, there are others that aren't exactly prefixes like benefactor malefactor manufacture and artifact, but still have fact in them

What is the figure speech of 'Once upon a midnight dreary' from 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

"Once upon a midnight dreary" uses anastrophe, which inverts the more common 'dreary midnight' to rhyme with weary at the end of the line. It is also a play on the common fairy tale opening of: "Once upon a time" to set a tone for the poem.

What poetic devices are used in the poem memory?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

Rhyme scheme and metaphor are the two poetic devices in William Wordsworth's poem "Memory." The poem uses a rhyme scheme of abab. The metaphor is of a pencil being compared to memory. The speaker says that the "pencil" of memory often softens the edges or changes the memory slightly in order to make the memory more pleasant.

What is didactic literature?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

From my (slightly uncertain) understanding, a didactic approach is opposite the dialectics encouraged by Socrates.

A didactic form of teaching would involve the conveyance of perceived 'facts' from a teacher to a student. This would be a teacher 'telling' a student how it is, or how it works, often without inviting questions as to the nature of the 'fact' or 'truth.' The biggest problem with this form of teaching comes from the philosophical notion that truth almost constantly evolves as human understanding increases.

In some cases, the didactic approach to teaching may be the most effective way. For instance, I would prefer my local life-guard accept the training offered by his/her certified teacher, instead of trying some new and creative method in the pursuit of knowledge.

Dialectics on the other hand involve both teacher and student pursuing an understanding through conversation.

If I remember correctly, Socrates accused the sophists of his time, who used the didactic approach, of having no real 'facts' at all. Socrates believed 'truth' and 'fact' to be incredibly hard to achieve if not impossible, as ones understanding/knowledge can almost always improve/increase.

I do not remember his phrasing exactly, but I'm pretty sure Socrates believed didactic teaching to be a tool of the intellectually pompous.

But, I could be very wrong about all of this.

If I am, well, I'm sure people will speak up.

What is the symbolism in The Sphinx by Poe?

User Avatar

Asked by Wiki User

i think it is the monster he thinks he sees is like cholera bringing death