Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

• The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
• The run down house appeared depressed.
• The first rays of morning tiptoed through the meadow.
• She did not realize that opportunity was knocking at her door.
• He did not realize that his last chance was walking out the door.
• The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.
• The wind howled its mighty objection.
• The snow swaddled the earth like a mother would her infant child.
• The river swallowed the earth as the water continued to rise higher and higher.
• Time flew and before we knew it, it was time for me to go home.

You need conbine your own experience of some subjects which you enrolled to answer that specific question.

- Develops precise images in the mind.

- creates specific and accurate details

- affects narrotors tone in a piece of writing

"Batty" is variation of the word bottom. It came from Jamaica.

He sat up sharply in bed is not figurative language.

Figurative writing might be something like:

He sat upright as if he was newly beaten egg whites making one high peak under a mixer.

I sat upright like a scarecrow on a pole hovering above my bed.

He shot upright as if a thousands scorpions marched across his mattress.

Anomaly - Something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.

Hombomeans a homo and a hobo mixed together

Yes. Stingy or miserly are similar words with a negative connotation.

The antonym is unimpressive.

Personification refers to giving humor characteristics to things that are not human. An example can be found in the sentence, 'Lennie covered his face with huge paws and bleated with terror.'

Accepted You would say 'accepted' angie.

Taking your lumps means learning, or gaining experience by suffering through a defeat, setback or reversal. When a mistake hurts you a lot, you are less likely to repeat it.

Skipping a beat, Racing, Pounding, Breaking, Pumping, Aching, Fluttering

it means to ask somebody something lik what are you talking about

I am as hot as the sun in this weather

I believe the statement is 'I can't help, but smile' and it means that you are SO happy you can't do anything else but smile

Well, there are a lot of ways. I suppose it depends on what is meant by "formal definition." For instance, does the word "joy" need to be defined in this definition, or are you just fitting it in as a vocabulary exercise? Can the writer make up his or her own definition, or does it need to come from a dictionary or something more "formal"? Are there certain things that it has to encompass in order to make it "formal" rather than "informal"? Guessing, I would try something like "Joy is the feeling you get when something great happens, or someone you love is near." If, of course, that is what you think joy is. Looking at a dictionary definition might help you to figure out your own formal definition.

Simile

Rawr is not a word in English.

Claudia was a good detective. (detective name Claudia)

Quotes do represent the donkey's ears.

Whatever found in donkeys ears is not always true. Some people resembling donkeys are speaking in quotes. In verbal communication is really difficult to see the quotes. You must look for donkeys' ears placed somewhere in people's heads!

Donkeys do lie all the time. They are actually self-indulging. A common donkey name in my country ("Mentios") is of Spanish origin (mentida, mentidos), meaning: The Liar.

Mentida / mentidos (Spanish), and, (la _) mensonge (French), both stand for: Lie, Lies.

The very English word "message" can mean: a Lie. (Do compare it with the French word and you'll see why.)

The ultimate knowledge is: Don't believe whatever it is said. Watch whether it is contained in quotes (' '). Those are donkeys ears.