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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;
3,204 Questions
What does the word adorned mean?
It means to be decorated with something. Such as "She was adorned with jewelry", "The building was adorned with a Doric frieze", "The shrine was adorned with flowers."
What is the opposite gender to peocock?
A peacock is a male peafowl. The female peafowl is called a peahen.
What figurative language is who was it who first said TV is a barren wasteland?
Hell IDK datz y im askin yhu dumb asses lol
What literary device does Carl Stepienson use in the story Leiningen versus the ants?
He uses an allusion to allude to SHakespeare's Macbeth
What is it called when two words contridict each other?
opposites * up / down * tall / short oxymoron * "jumbo shrimp" * "little giant"
What is the difference between figurative language and descriptive?
descriptive is more literal than figuative.
How might a reader know whether a text is using multiple voices?
You may notice where others introduce themselves as narrators, or you may notice a change in the pronouns used. It may change from a third person point of view to a first person point of view or vice-versa.
Limitations of social responsibility?
LIMITATIONS OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
The social responsibility actions of business are limited by cost, efficiency, relevance, and scope. As result of these constraints, social responsibility actions fall short of public expectations.
1. Cost
Social responsibility costs money. Whether a firm desires to adopt a village, donate to college or school, built a hospital or undertake relief operations in times of calamity, it costs money and the money could be used for welfare of employees for improving business. As worthy as some social action may be, they do impose costs either on the business or on some groups in society, or both.
2. Efficiency
The cost of social responsibility can reduce a firm's efficiency and affect its ability to compete in the market place. For example, if a firm is pressured by a local community to keep an outmoded, inefficient plant in operation because closing it would mean loss to local people, while its competitors close their old plants and move operations to other countries to take advantage of lower wages there, the business would not survive at all. The mangers who place interests of local employees before the firm's survival, cannot face more efficient competitors.
3. Relevance
According to several critics and as stated earlier, business has no obligations to society. The only obligation is to run the business successfully. Social responsibility is irrelevant. "There is only and only one social responsibility of business: to use its resources and energy in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game & engages in open and free competition, without deception". In short, business should produce goods and services efficiently and leave the solution of social problems to the concerned individuals and government agencies.
4. Scope and complexity
Society's problems are too massive, and too deep-seated to be solved by even the most socially conscientious company or even by all companies acting together. The problems - such as environmental pollution - acid rain, ozone depletion, destruction of rain forests; health problems - AIDS, drug and tobacco use; racial discrimination; and the like defy solutions however conscientious one might be. Each of these constraints influences and is influenced by other limits. All the constraints impact CSR and are influenced by corporate social responsibility.
Is Easter egg a figure of speech?
Not really. A figure of speech is when language diverts from its normal use, and uses words in special ways to promote particular meaning. For example, "falling in love" is a figure of speech, but it does not involve any falling of any sort. So, "Easter egg" isn't really a figure of speech. Chocolate is shaped to form eggs. Or real eggs are blown out, then dyed or decorated. They are eggs specifically for Easter, and the terminology relates directly to both Easter and eggs.
What if your only shame is to have shame?
Then it would be very easy not to get shameful because you would not have anything to give you shame in the first place. So, if you do not feel shame from anything but shame, you would not feel shame from anything.
Is social responsibility of business to increase its profit?
It is not so. The company which feels the responsibility do all such activities which in turn gives them profit.
Few companies uses this to make profit like (Advertising,Marketing etc). Who cares all these you are being profited at both the ends.
What is the word that means making a word look like its meaning?
It's 'iconicity'. The word that mimes its meaning is iconic. Iconicity is not necessarily visual, in language you can more often encounter onomatopoeia = iconicity of sound (the sound of the words mimes real-life sounds, as in 'hiss')
What figure of speech is this sentence She has a stormy temper?
Someone's temper cannot really be "stormy". There are no dark clouds, lightning flashes, forceful winds. So stormy temper is a figure of speech.
personification
Is hyperbole a figure of speech true or false?
yes, a hyperbole is exaggeration which is in its own form a figure of speech. For example I'm bored to death.
What does the saying the riches of others make you more valuable mean?
The more you learn from the experiences of others the more useful you become through the combined knowledge derived from those experiences.
Compound words that have the word self in it?
Compound words that have 'self' in them are:
- myself
- yourself
- himself
- herself
- itself
