"The pale peaks of the mountains were coming nearer, moonlit spikes of rock sticking out of the black shadows." (pg. 107)
and
"Indeed for a long time they could get nothing more out of him, he was so busy sending smoke rings dodging around the pillars of the hall, changing them into all sorts of shapes and colours, and setting them at last chasing one another out of the hole in the roof. They must have looked very queer from outside, popping out into the air, one after another, green, blue, red silver-grey, yellow, white; big ones, little ones; little ones dodging through big ones and joining into figure eights, and going off like a flock of birds into the distance." (pg.128)
...and by that time they must have been right down in the very mountain's heart.
"...shaking like a jelly was melting." simile (Chapter 1)
The second edition of The Hobbit was published in 1951. It made some small adjustments to the story of the Riddle Game, but changed little overall.
ugly, rough, have stony voices, like to laugh
Lots of Simile's and there are some examples of personification too :) Then the brown water that had puddled up all over the field began to move. It began to run toward the back portables, like someone pulled the plug out of a giant bathtub. This one had both simile and Personification. Definitions: Simile- A comparison using like or as. Personification- A non-living thing given human characteristics.
You mean a typo in the book? Not much. Some of it will depend on whether it is hard copy or paperback.
The story has been consistent since Tolkien made some revisions at the time of the release of the Lord of the Rings to make the two stories consistent.
Some of the speech devices that describe mosquito buzzing is an onomatopoeia. These devices describe the sounds made by various objects.
Some examples of figures of speech in "Oedipus the King" include metaphor when Oedipus refers to himself as "the all-unknown invincible Sphinx," simile when Teiresias compares Oedipus to a stone, and personification when the plague is described as a "lord who rides us down to death."
* blood ran cold * break a leg * bakers dozen *a drop in the bucket *a piece of cake *apple of my eye
Some of the Victorian era figures of speech are epiphany, bathos, synecdoche, trope,and allusion. The Victorian era had several figures of speech that are still used today. One figure of speech was "fit as a fiddle." Another was " wring their necks."
the wind
the wind
Some examples of pure speech are protests, assemblies, demonstrations, etc.
apostrophe: addressing something absent or not human as if it were there or could answer back. example: (to a clock) why aren't you moving faster?
Some figures of speech in "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck include simile ("like a sacrificial goat waiting for the knife") and metaphor ("The essence of pearl mixed with essence of men and a curious dark residue was precipitated"). These figures of speech help create vivid imagery and emotional depth in the novel.
here are some examples for plane figures: 1) surface of a table 2) notebook 3)wall 4)ground 5)door
It is good to study figures of speech so that you can recognize them in conversation later in life. People use them a lot, and since figures of speech aren't literal, straight interpretations of the words used, it is easy to get confused. If you didn't know some figures of speech, certain conversations could fly right over your head. ;) Here is a wikipedia article on the subject with some excellent material: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech
Spatial figures are figures that are three dimensional. Some examples of spatial figures include cubes, cylinders, cones, prisms, pyramids, spheres and rectangular prisms. You can get some more details about these figures on Psychometric Success website.