Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

what kind of figurative language is the world is my oyster

Purple represents the colour of death and mourning. During Lent, a Church is usually decorated with purple cloths, and the priest usually wears purple vestments, to show that Lent is a period of mourning for the death of Christ on the Cross. Then, after Lent, the colours change to red and white to celebrate the glorious Resurrection.

• "Nip it in the butt" instead of the correct "Nip it in the bud" (think nipping off a plant bud to stop it from growing).
  
• "I could care less" (meaning you do care some) instead of "I couldn't care less" (meaning you don't care at all).
• "One in the same" (it's not inside the same) instead of the correct "One and the same."
• "You've got another thing coming"(which makes no sense if you're talking about thinking) instead of the correct "You've got another think coming" (as in "If you think that, you've got another think coming.")
• "On accident" instead of the correct "By accident."
• "Statue of limitations" instead of the correct "Statuteof limitations" (it's not carved of marble).
• "For all intensive purposes" instead of the correct "For all intents and purposes" (meaning you intend to do something and have a purpose).
• "To extract revenge" (meaning take it out of something) instead of the correct "To exact revenge" (to give it out).
• "Old timer's disease" instead of the correct "Alzheimer's disease" (it's named for a scientist).
• "Giving you leadway" (not actually a word) instead of the correct "Giving you leeway" (leeway is room to maneuver).
• "I'll axe him that question" (you're chopping him with an axe?) instead of the correct "I'll ask him the question."
• "Scotch free" instead of the correct "Scot free."
• "I turned in a 360 degree angle" (you turned all the way around and are still headed in the same direction) instead of the correct "I did a complete 180 degree turn" (meaning you turned around and went in the opposite direction).
• "Curl up in a feeble position" (means weak) instead of the correct "Curl up in the fetal position" (like a baby).
• "Hone in on the answer" (means to sharpen something) instead of the correct "Home in on the answer" (means to locate the correct spot).

It means dress up in your most fashionable clothes. No one knows for certain where the expression comes from.

bazinga!

With left handed scissors, the blades are the other way round (the half that comes up when you open them is on the left), so that when cutting the blades are pushed together instead of apart like what would happen if a left handed person used right-handed scissors. Also, if the scissors have angled grips so your fingers are more comfortable and slide in better, those are the other way around as well (as your fingers are coming in from the other side.

Five examples of personification include the sun kissed the grass, the stars danced in the sky, and the wind howled through the house. Time sneaks up on you and the fire ran out of control are other personification examples.

Certainly, but smooth water reflects better than turbulent water.

parallelism - "I've been all around the world, I've been a new sensation"

rhyme - (obvious)

repetition - (see above)

refrain - (haha see above again)

alliteration - "sophomore slump", "live the life of leisure" "mix and mingle"

simile - "like a new religion"

internal rhyme - "drop my top" " rhymin and the timin"

hyperbole - "music's making people tounge tied"

imagery - (obvious)

apostrophe - "are you listening to a single word ive said?"

Life is Art, Music is Art

I combined glastonbury and creamfields to make Creambury.

you think hard and plan out what your going to write.it worked for me i was in y4 and i got a y7 mark for my essay.you need to be in a room full of quiet and think about what you need to write. the key is focus and concentration.

Sylra

Epos

Divan

Anthology

Rome wasn't built in a day.

Her/His eyes are bigger than her/his stomach.

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse/elephant.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it.

The early bird gets the worm.

Where there's a will there's a way.

All good things must come to an end.

Don't get your chickens before they are hatched.

The young boy was zealous about his first day of school.

To start, pragmatics is the study of the ability to communicate more than which is explicitly stated. The ability to understand another speakers 'intended' meaning is what we call pragmatic competence.

An example:

A mother wishes her son to clean his room. She could say:

"Clean your room."

This is direct and with clear semantic meaning. Alternativly, the mother could say:

"It's like a pig sty in your room."

This implies a similar meaning but is indirect and therefore requires pragmatic inference to derive the intended meaning. The 'understood' communication is still "clean your room".

Senior is usually abbreviated to 'Sr.'

You could use Democracy, or Dictatorship ;)

Personification is a stylistic device when non-living things, objects and animals are given human qualities. Example of personification includes: "The moonlight KISSED her skin, illuminating it through the darkness. "

My hairy and sweaty ballsack

simile

metaphor

hyperbole

personification

irony

allusion

Equivocate is making a statement that circumvents an outright statement of the truth.

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examples of irony