Because "A Pair of Silk Stockings" is a Realist work, there are very few devices used. Realism aims to capture life as it is really lived, free of heavy metaphor or symbolic resonance.
Why were stockings made?
Its a metaphor
panty hose, socks, mini stockings they have stockings in most countries panty hose, socks, mini stockings they have stockings in most countries
It is a metaphor.
it is neither, it is personification
Stockings are sukkahousut in Finnish.
"He was a lion in the fight" is a metaphor.
Stockings died in 2010, in USA.
Implied metaphor is when it gives you the metaphor but doesn't tell what the subject is. A regular metaphor tells you the subject of it.
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