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Literary Devices and Figures of Speech
Includes questions related to rules and methods used in literature and using words, terms and sentences in figurative or nonliteral ways;
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Is a toy soldier a metaphor a simile hyperbole or personification?
it is a simile because it it using the word 'like'
Term used to describe perfect place?
The term used to describe a perfect place would be Utopia. I would love to be in Utopia feeling euphoria lol
What is th miraculous birth and why the children do not want it to happen in musee des beaux arts?
The miraculous birth refers to jesus and how the old are waiting very curious while the children tht dont understand this stuff prefer to have fun or that they are just ignorant of what importance is happening.
"Feeling torn" indicates ambivalence; having "torn feelings" means that you are figuratively "feeling torn" between seemingly opposite answers to a question, or disparate thoughts on an issue.
e.g.: "I feel torn about the death penalty: in some cases it seems justified, but I am not convinced our system is able to apply it with 100% accuracy, only to the criminals who deserve it."
How much figures of speech has been used in the slaves dream?
To identify the figures of speech you need to look at the dream that the slave has as he lies on his plantation, near death. Consider the way that, as he rides his horse, a metaphor is used to describe the reins as being like "golden chains" that serve to emphasize the wealth and nobility of his life before he was transported to work as a slave. The "blood-red flamingos" are described using a simile as being "like a blood-red flag," just as the sounds of the "water-horse" passing are described as being "like a glorious roll of drums." The setting of this free Africa is personified in the following stanza:
The forests, with their myriad tongues,
Shouted of liberty;
And the Blast of the Desert cried aloud,
With a voice so wild and free...
Note how the forests are compared to people shouting of "liberty" and the Desert likewise is able to cry out with "a voice so wild and free." Lastly, a metaphor is used to describe the body of the slave in the final stanza, as it is said to be "a worn-out fetter" that the soul had left.
What does you are jumble sailors on the rough sea means?
This means that you are a group of people in a situation that you can't control.
An adage can be a quote, saying or proverb. They are supposed to be wise statements and expressions.
Examples:
- A watched pot never boils.
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
- Be careful what you wish for, it may come true!
- Better safe than sorry.
- Curiosity killed the cat.
- Money is the root of all evil.
- Nothing in life is free.
- Practice makes perfect.
- Two heads are better than one.
- Two wrongs don't make a right.
- What doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger.
A pangram is a sentence that uses each letter of the alphabet at least once, such as, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
Which tells what diction means?
the words the writer chooses and how the words are put together
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What is the literary device where the last word of a sentence begins the next sentence?
Whether it is one word or a phrase, the term is "anaphora".
The word 'fallacy', pronounced 'fal-uss-ee', ('-al-' as in gal) isn't a bad word, in the sense of being offensive or rude. It means a false idea or belief.
Perhaps you are thinking of the word 'phallus', meaning an image, or representation, of a penis, or a penis itself? 'Phallus' is pronounced 'fal-uss', so it sounds similar to 'fallacy'; it isn't a bad word, either.
The noun 'fallacy' came into English in the fifteenth century, from a Latin form describing deception; it has some variations in meaning:
Deceptiveness;
An argument, or a statement, based on a mistaken belief which makes the entire argument, or statement, false;
An error in reasoning which makes an argument false;
A misconception which is the result of faulty reasoning;
A factoid; a false belief, idea, or theory, that many people believe to be true simply because so many people have come to believe it is true; for example: 'The notion that anyone can catch a cold simply from being in the rain is a fallacy; a factoid.'
What makes rhetorical question effective?
The benefit is that it persuades your audience more effectively to ask a question that they have already answered for themselves in their heads through your lead in to your rhetorical question. The audience will be more persuaded if they think of the answer "on their own" rather than just telling them what you think the answer to be.
In the first sentence, the oxymoron is to resist anything except temptation since you cannot resist an urge unless you are first made aware of (tempted to) it.
In the second sentence, the oxymoron is calling modern dancing old-fashioned as calling something modern implies it is something newer and therefore not relating to older ways (being old-fashioned, in other words).
Is freezing to death an idiomatic expression?
It can be. Literally, freezing to death means that your body temperature drops so low that you cannot stay alive. However, many people use this as an exaggeration to mean that they are just cold. They might reach for a sweater and say "I'm freezing to death in here with that air conditioning blowing!"
Differentiate clearly between parts of speech and figures of speech?
The parts of speech are also known as lexical categories, and they are the groups of certain types of words based on their function in a sentence.
They include nouns, verbs, articles, pronouns, conjunctions, adverbs, prepositions, and participles.
Figures of speech are words or phrases that have a less literal meaning and are used for literary effect instead of for meaning.
A list of many figures of speech are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figures_of_speech
Is being infamous ever a good thing?
Historically, some people have thought so, on the basis that there is no such thing as bad publicity. For example, there was a guy called Herostratus who burned down the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World no less, in 356 BC, on the grounds that if he did so, people would remember his name thousands of years later. Which they do.
What does The flames mocked the rescue workers mean in personification?
The flames are not actually mocking the rescue workers - the flames are inhuman and can't mock anything. They are merely personified to be mocking them, meaning that the flames made it harder for the rescue workers to do their work, and the workers felt disheartened and upset, as if the flames had been mocking them.
Personification figures of speech?
Personification is used in figures of speech to give human characteristics to inanimate things. This is done to help give a visual for better understanding or entertainment when communicating.
