Literary Devices and Figures of Speech

This is an exmple of an oxymoron, where the adjective friendly contrasts with the noun argument, which is apparently a contradiction.

An oxymoron juxtaposes two contradictory words for the purpose of description. An example of a sentence using an oxymoron would be: He was the recipient of the same crazy wisdom that his father had.

Yes if you use like or as to compare it is a simile

Summation means to sum up, or find the total.

Just the memorization of material without thinking about it. Mechanical responses by one who does not really understand what he is saying, or is just regurgatating what he thinks his listener, possibly a teacher, wants to hear.

I think it has been shorted from a longer sentence:

"Running like a dog......with three legs"

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which means it would be limping.

you can say: What goes around comes around.it is basically whatever you believe to be true about life, society, yourself, or others!

Anecdote Humor Imagery

To dig, as in to understand or appreciate something, is not figurative language. Some sources hypothesize that it derives from an African dialectical word, degg, meaning to understand. Others credit Irish Gaelic and the word dtuig, which has the same definition.

Figurative language is a way of expressing something in a way that should not be taken literally. For example, you might say that an oxygen atom wants to gain two electrons. Oxygen atoms dotend to gain two electrons when the undergo chemical reactions, but they do not have actual desires or minds. Still, it is quite understandable if you say they want to gain two electrons. That is a figurative statement. It doesn't really have anything to do with the writer's personal life, although nothing prevents a writer from discussing his or her life in figurative terms if he or she so desires.

I think bias is a normal enough thing. All of us can create a story from our observations and experience about an event which is not true for everyone with the same sighting. An example would be what we think a neighbor is doing in his front yard: picking weeds? Bending down for exercise? Looking at an ant hill? It takes some critical thinking to observe what bias there is in a newspaper story or in something reported on television. Sometimes word choice or emphasis on one aspect of the report tips you off as to the opinion of the writer. In journalism, there used to be an emphasis on getting the story right: where all the essential parts had the correct weight of importance. These days, there is often a "spin" that directs the story, which bends the facts to suit a viewpoint..

The repeating of beginning consonant sounds is called aliteration.

It's an example of an idiom. 'Fuggaboutid', for example.
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No, it is a sentence. Mary and the nurse midwives are people. They built clinics.

alliteration

An anastrophe is an instance of unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of a sentence.

People can be wounded and have their feelings hurt by someone speaking sarcastically to them. Sarcasm is saying something cutting or intended to hurt, often using irony to deliver the wound. Irony is word use to say something other than what the words usually stand for, most often meaning the opposite of what the literal meaning of the words is. The tone of the voice and inflection is also often used to underscore the ironic/sarcastic part of the statement.

Example:

A man comes to breakfast after a night of drinking, he looks hung over and is unshaven, wearing the wrinkled clothes he slept in, with hair disheveled, and his eyes are red and squinted from the sunlight.

His wife takes one look at him and says, "Well, now, don't you look just bright and shiny this morning?!"

"Such as" is usually a synonym for "for example" (ie: there are many drinks to choose from such as punch, water, and soda).

The phrase "My refrigerator is running well since we had it fixed" is an example of personification, a type of figurative language where human characteristics are attributed to inanimate objects. In this case, the refrigerator is being described as "running," which is a human action. This personification adds a playful or humorous element to the statement.

Preenergize means to get energy Quickly.

A cakewalk is a figure of speech, it means that something is going to be easy, if I am not mistaken.

Generally means the rear glass hatch is open.

It's a system developed in aviation and now used also in cars, that prevents a wheel from 'locking up' under heavy braking. It releases pressure and then re-applies it very quickly. This prevents skidding.

The main difference betwen the mystery and the suspense genre's are that the mystery genre has a detective or superhero tyring to resolve an issue, and a suspence genre has forshadowing, ironic events and a great deal of symbolism.