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I’m helpless down in the count drowning in him. what is the literary device?
“The wind sang softly to the trees at dusk. We knew we had to get home.” What figurative term is being used here? *
personification I believe
What is it called when a title of a piece is not really what the piece is about, or contradicts the message of the piece? You see this in satire and parody. Here’ s an off the top of my head example. Title: How To Build a Better Mousetrap. And the article is about how you can’t really build a better mousetrap. Is this a literary device?
Thanks for this website, I just discovered it.
It’s irony I believe
Is “arches it’s tiny body” a metaphor or personification?
It is neither if it is small.
If a text has a problem and they provide a solution then they support their solution with solution that have worked in the past, what literary device would this be. Would it be flashback or allusion, or something entirely different.
When she moves, her sari rustles and her bracelets jingle.
What’s is the dominant literary device?
Hmmm. I think the “dominant literary device” might be at the beginning in the reference to her movement. But I can’t think of the name of the device.
Onomatopoeia
autamodapea (or however you spell it)
Can Literary Devices be mixed sometimes? For example: can Hyperbole be mixed with Allegory?
What’s an idiom?
An idiom is a common expression that native speakers of a language use where the words may not tell you the actual meaning. For example “I’m all ears”, does not mean you a made up ears but means you are listening. Or if you say “He quit cold turkey”, it means the person a stopped a habit abruptly not that he no longer eats turkey cold.
An idiom is just a phrase people say where the words are different from the literal meaning. Here is a site that has a list of idioms https://idioms.fyi/
What literary devices are used by modern European literature?
mostly all of them if you know where to look