Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

The full saying is "When in Rome, do as the Romans do".

The phrase developed from the following incident:

When St. Augustine arrived in Milan, he observed that the Church did not fast on Saturday as did the Church at Rome. He consulted St. Ambrose, bishop of Milan, who replied: "When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Follow the custom of the Church where you are." The comment was changed to "When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done," by Robert Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy. Eventually it became, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

An unsubstantiated opinion is an opinion without evidence, facts, or proof.

Anan... eben....

Connotation is the feeling a word or phrase evokes, as opposed to denotation, which is the literal definition.

Alliteration, Biblical allusions, parallel sentence structure, metaphors, and personification.

The metaphor is literary term that is used in the underlined portion of sonnet XVIII Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade.

Federico Fellini said that... a longer version is

"Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain."

When he says that death hides in clocks, he is saying that time kills us all, and maybe also symbolically that if we are focused on time that we lose our chance to live in the now, because we consider the past or live for the future, instead of working on liking and adjusting who we are right now, and what we are currently surrounded with.

The term 'august gathering' refers to a gathering marked by dignity or grandeur

what "the soft, unbroken snow seemed to advertise solidity beneath mean

Juliet meant that like if a rose was called anything else it would still smell sweet, referring to Romeo, saying that if he were named anything else he would still be sweet despite his last name. He is still the same guy even if he is a Montague, so if it is only a matter of names he could change names, or if he didn't want to, she would change hers and no longer be a Capulet.

A dysphemism is almost an opposite to a euphemism. It is harsher than the original word or phrase.

An example of a dysphemism is, 'dead tree edition', to describe a paper version of an online magazine.


Another example is the use of, 'kill' to describe a defeat. Such as, 'we are going to kill you in the game'.

Mr. John Oakhurst, the "Duchess", "Mother Shipton", "Uncle Billy", Tom Simson, and Piney Woods

The snow was as thick as a wool blanket over the frozen ground: Simile

the root word vid means to see, as in video. ur welcome. email me at emmaoros@gmail.com. i have a sepecial program for definitions :P luv ya all!

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It is the opposite of open-handed. It means ungenerous, stingy, unwilling to share. Used of those who have much - and don't seem to enjoy it , especially.

Originally, a red-neck was just someone who worked outside ... their neck got sunburned. Nowadays, you are less likely to hear the word used about farmers and other physical laborers, and more about ignorant country folk. In the American South, a red-neck is a hick, a country rube, or an inbred ignoramous. There are red-neck joke collections, similar to the blonde jokes. * What is the last thing you hear a red-neck say? * "Hey y'all, watch this!"

man vs. nature

Barry's fathers about to die

man vs. self

Barry now has to take responsibility and take the authority his father gave him

Epic literature cannot always be very accurate, it tells us different stories, but they cannot be accurate for sure.

This oxymoronic expression does not refer to silence in general, but to a particular, prominent silence, like when someone says the wrong thing at a party and everyone suddenly becomes quiet.

antithesis is a noun.

you can't antithesis anyone. just like you can't say he is an antithesis person. but you can say that this poem shows great antithesis.

preposition

Naturally-

"You are the thunder and I am the lightning."

If you are going to be a co-worker or working alongside the other person, say "working."

If you are a plastic surgeon or are planning to do something to the other person's body, say "work."