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82 comments posted"our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor,"
What literary device is this?
Lawless freedom
what literary devices are used in pick up your room, my mother says, she says it every day, my room's too heavy to pick up, that's what I always say
what is contrast?
What is it called when you replace a concept with the negation of the opposite?
He is tall vs. He is not short.
I'd call it litote or understatement. It's the difference between saying that someone isn't ugly and saying that he or she is good-looking.
When somebody is being stabbed multiple times through various parts of their body and the quote says "The knife kept coming out clean". What sort of a reference is this? How does this denote innocence.
What is it called when u start a speech on one subject then through association meander through a few other subjects getting farther away from the original subject until within 5 or 6 degrees of association you find yourself right back at your original subject forming a neat circle of ideas that topically may not seem to share any correlation but in fact are all related?
Stream of consciousness, perhaps?
She dwelt among the untrodden way.
It's from The Odyssey:
"Inhabited this sunny shore"
what is meant by it was quiet,for the wind had dropped even in that high place,and susan swayed backwards and forwards drinking in the peace
"dipping her pen in the sunlight" is what literary device?
Is this any type of literary device...
" I will tell the secret to you,
to you only you.
Come closer..."
1.The wise fool was burning my vegetarian hamburger.
2.The clever yet quiet king thought a very long time before he gave his answer.
3.At very beginning of the story,the sun shone and smiled down on the flowers in the fields.
4.While she watched her children leaving on the train, she had a bitter sweet feeling in her heart.
Infer the theme of a word and explain how it is conveyed
What literary tool is this? "LIfe is not a spectator sport. If watchin' is all you're gonna do, the you're gonna watch your lif ego by without ya."
Does the song Just The Way You Are By Bruno Mars have any literary devices ?o:
“ they begged her to go live with her godmother; when she refused, the townspeople formed crews to rebuild the house
Is there a literary device which makes the reader like the protagonist (like the goodie and hate the baddie) ??
thank you!
Does " You have my heart." have any Literary Devices in it??
What literary device is this quote? "As the summit of the mountains feels the quaking of the earth."
if anyone know about this literary device please clearify it
when a novel displays a paragraph of dialogue without informing the reader who is saying which lines... what literary device goes along with that?
for example...
"Maybe he was already gone."
"He wasn't"
"But maybe"
"No I could feel it. He wasn't."
what are anecdotes it's not on the list :|?
An anecdote is a short narrative. In persuasive writing anecdotes are used to influence the reader by appealing to her/his emotions.
What literary device is " that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love"
you're giving a non-living element human traits.
What literary device is being used when saying "a taste of freedom"
"Shepherds swains shall" is an example of what literary device?
alliteration
What is it called when the main character in a novel asks questions or talks to ones self. Kind of like a soliloquy but in a novel. Help please!
What is Verbal Irony?
The speaker says one thing , but means something else.
Verbal Irony is when a character says something that is the opposite of what they mean. A form of verbal irony is sarcasm, which is normally used specifically to be insulting, rude, or condescending. An example of sarcasm would be to say "Hey genius," when talking to someone who is not a genius. An example of plain verbal irony would be to say "This is wonderful," right after an event that is not wonderful.
To be clear, while all sarcasm is verbal irony, not all verbal irony is sarcasm. Sarcasm is specifically used in a more negative sense, while non-sarcastic verbal irony is simply saying the opposite of what you mean.
Swear to shake it up, if you swear to listen
is this any kind of literary devise? if so, which??
No wonder you’re flunking the hell out of here… You don’t do one damn thing the way you’re supposed to. I mean it. Not one damn thing”
justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God
what literary device is this?
what literary devices are use in the statement "This store is going to make me lose my lunch"
Im trying to do a research project on hymns of Charles Wesley and I need to know what kind of literary devices are used in hymns!
What is a device that uses extra word which make the sentence longer.
Ex. mary had two shoe on her feet while she ran across the field.
It saved my life (or homework)!
What kind of literary device is 1 Thessalonians?
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Unable to still our anguish...
In literary terms, define novella and fiction
When an author starts their book/novel off with the END of the story, then works their way back up, telling the story up until the point where they reach where they originally started, what device is that author using?
structure is the way that a story is built. The author is definitely not using "chronological order," or telling the story in the order in which things happenned. Structure is any order.
So basically, the author is just using a different kind of STRUCTURE.
(sorry for not jumping right to the point ^^;)
Is an idiom considered a literary device?
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