Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

The comparative form is "more foolish", and the superlative form is "most foolish".

Hmmm. If you don't know what the word means, you surely can't use it in a sentence. Consult a dictionary for the definition. Once you know the meaning, writing a sentence using the word becomes the easy part. It's the ONLY way to learn. ================== If I've said it once, I've said it a million times, "Don't ask such questions."

Some synonyms for unknown are:

alien, anonymous, concealed, dark, desolate, distant, exotic, far, far-off, faraway, foreign, hidden, humble, incog, incognito, little known, nameless, new, remote, secret, so-and-so, strange, such-and-such, unapprehended, unascertained, uncelebrated, uncharted, undiscovered, undistinguished, unexplained, unexplored, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unidentified, unnamed, unnoted, unperceived, unrecognized, unrenowned, unrevealed, unsung, untold

"Life is just a bowl of cherries" is a popular idiom that at one point was made into a song. It simply means that life is good and everything is going great!

The old lady's skin was as rough as sand paper. In this example, the old lady's skin is being compared to the roughness of sandpaper using "as" to connect the two objects.

Metaphor: something is compared to something else without using the words "like" or "as" to make it obvious it is a comparison. "There was a sea of people at the concert": here a crowd is compared to a sea.

Simile: something is compared to something else directly using words like "like" or "as". "He walked into the party like he was walking onto a yacht."

Personification: talking about something inanimate as if it were a person. "The car made a real effort to get up that hill in third gear."

Synechdoche: where you use part of something to represent the whole thing. "We could sure use a hand over here."

Metonymy: where you use something associated with something else to represent it. "Car number 3 took the checkered flag."

Oxymoron: two opposing concepts are jammed together "Two more hours of boring excitement followed."

Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds especially at the start of words. "Bert Brydenhart bulked big in Painted Rock."

Zeugma: multiple objects of the same preposition which use the preposition in different senses. "She left in a rage and a taxi." "He hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar and the lamps."

As a term in common speech, "a crackerjack team" would mean "a team of experts, the best in the business". "Crackerjack", as an American colloquialism goes back to about 1900, and has always meant "A-1, excellent". The first person to taste the peanut-and-popcorn coated snack remarked to the inventor: "That's crackerjack!" and the name is what the inventor used for the product.

it is a personification

a taunting or cynical tone

A stereotype

It's actually not the first letter, it's the first sound. For example tired and third, they both start with the same letter, but have a completely different sound. When they have the same sound, this is called alliteration.

It is a term that derived from gambling. It refers to when women would stand alongside a person who was winning and they were thought to be lucky. Used to mean, fate, fortune.

The personification of luck in lady form.

Frank Sinatra sang a song called 'Luck Be a Lady.' It was also featured in the musical Guys and Dolls.

The opposite of artisan: amateur - demolisher - unskilled worker

Both Hebrew and English lack gender-neutral pronouns for the third person, so God would have to be either He or She. The Bible primarily uses male terms for God, although there are a few cases of female terminology as well.

News should be interesting to help viewers pay attention to the topic.

When you read you become part of the book, and the book becomes part of you. Your imagination makes the characters and plot real. Reading is a totally personal pursuit that not only provides understanding and structure of language, it enables dreams and abstract thought. Films and computer generated media are passive entertainment requiring no effort and therefore no imagination.

The above does not answer your question.

Younger minds are more capable of absorbing information and recalling said information. That is why it is best to learn a foreign language at a young age as well.

The top does answer the question.

Absorbing and recalling are purely mechanical abilities,(you can be educated beyond your intelligence) understanding what has been read requires abstract thought and imagination, something a younger, unpolluted, mind has in abundance. Learning anything, included languages is best started young, but that was not what was asked in the initial question.

Faulty reasoning means improper or mistakes in reasoning.

It can also be a propaganda technique used to manipulate how you feel about someone or something. It gives some main ideas that don't support the conclusion.

For example, let's say there was an advertisement for a shampoo.

"If you don't use our hair products, your hair will thin, you'll lose your hair, and nobody will want to be your friend."

That doesn't support the conclusion, by saying that by not using the shampoo, nobody will like you.

Here's another:

"Christians believe in God. Muslims believe in God. Therefore, Christians are Muslims."

That doesn't support the conclusion in any way. Christians are obviously not Muslim just because they believe in God. In fact, it may not even be the same God!

That's what faulty reasoning is.

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Figurative speech would mean "figures of speech" - both terms refer to the same linguistic manipulations.

It's the use of a metaphor, analogy, simile, or other speech tools to enhance and lend imagery and understanding to what's being said.

One example from the famous speech in question is the following line:

'I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'

In this line, a nation cannot actually rise up as Dr. King states. A nation is an inanimate object and has no free will. It cannot literally rise up any more than a box or a rock can. The phrase is meant to convey that the people of the nation would embrace change and strive for a higher ideal, living up to the expectations we set for ourselves as a society. This complete and complex thought is elegantly and eloquently expressed with the simple phrase of 'this nation will rise up' instead.

There are other examples in that same line as well. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident.'

Truths cannot actually be held.

Truths are an abstract concept, not a concrete object, and therefore they cannot be 'self-evident.'

These are figures of speech, and they are collectively examples of figurative speech.

One part might be when she said ladies and gentlemen welcome to the 76 hunger games hope this helps ;D

I was myself doing an assignment and so I thought I'd help you out! Because the answer above doesn't seem very helpful haha

Similes: "The summer had been scorching hot and dry as a bone." Chapter 1 page 5

"It was like being an insect trapped under a bowl filled with steaming air" Chapter 2 page 22

Metaphors: "Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire burns on. " Chapter 8 page 105

Hyperbole/Exaggeration: " Whatever it takes to break you" page 151

"This is the question that consumes me over the next three days as we wait to be released from our prison of safety.

Personification: "The sirens began to wail" Chapter 7 page 92

Hope that helps even though its not much!! -R