Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

Dr. Suess . . . creative . . . a poet . . . whimsical

Cancelled is CXD

Come see me whenever it is convenient for you.

becuz It is gay

It is a metaphor because it says he is a hard lump of clay. I know that it is a metaphor because a metaphor describes something to another thing as something who is another thing, not something that is like another thing.

Roll a joint

Terms of reference.

It refers to casual everyday, unrehearsed speech as in a conversation with a friend.

Its pride and joy.

'une belle de boulevard' is an euphemistic, humorous term to speak of the ladies selling sex alongside the boulevards

metaphor

An appositive is a noun or pronoun that usually comes directly after another noun or pronoun in a sentence to identify that word or to provide further information about it The Empress, a ballerina, dances with Harrison. An appositive phrase is made up of an appositive and all of its modifiers. The modifiers may be single words, phrases, or clauses. Diana, a violent woman, fires at the two lovers, rebels who deserve our admiration.

I think "Banged to Rights" means: You have caught me fairly and squarely.

...another way of saying "You are not the sharpest tool in the shed".

1. Both are contradictions. With an oxymoron, the contradiction is side by side within a sentence (The living dead); whereas with a juxtaposition, the contradiction does NOT occur next to each other within a sentence (the little wart was huge). Another way juxtaposition is described is "to contrast" two things, ideas, people, etc.

I believe that a reflective smile is the kind of smile that makes you smile when you see it.

Nia because she gets brain damage while giving birth and dies and there for Bobby had to take care of feather all on his own.

Mousse

When speaking interrogatively.

A subject may be modified by an article (a, an, the); and adjective that describes the subject; or a phrase that tells about the subject.

'Discriminating' is such a word, though it has additional meanings as well.

You can say it both ways.

i think it means to not be accepting of the truth

Blood flowed in the city last night.

Now silence looks out of the windows;

A stream of eyes sees the sunrise

Glowing on a saber's blade

Sounds of rifle shot announce the day,

Fear rocks the cowering houses,

A man goes around the empty streets

Pushing his cart of cadavers.

Confusion rushes out of dark doors

Screaming as if it were a little child

Who has seen his mother boarding

A hearse in front of a butcher's shop

yes.