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i can resist anything but temptation
Do you not wish to be president. What literary devices?
what literary device are dreams flushed to glow
the literary divice is personification
I need help
What device is “wind of promise”
which literary device is used for two words that are opposite in meaning like dessert rivers.
oxymoron
Oxymoron
There is a specific name for this literary device and I cannot recall it. It was coined by an author… it is not “irony” or “foreshadowing.”
It is the term to describe the event when a person carelessly speaks a hard truth without comprehending the weight of their own words. It is often prophetic. For instance…
In Star Wars Episode Two, Obiwan Kanobi says of Anakin Skywalker “That boy will be the death of me.”
In History Of The World part one, The Count DeMonet explains to Mel Brooks that he will will impersonate the king and go to the gallows in his place. Brooks says “Oh, I get it.”
is their a literary technique being used in the following statement..
“Granddad was drunk on his own power”
Is the statement
“You often get different accounts of the same thing” a Paradox?
what literary term is used in the extract below;
”deserts too have their rivers”
What type of literary device is the following statements:
“Trouble has toned down the vulgarity”
“trouble has done her good”
what literary device is used in
never must it come into contact with the earth
What literary devices are in “I only have one heart and I’m saving it.”
what kind of figurative language is this “The wind sang softly to the trees at dusk. We knew we had to get home.” What figurative term is being used here?
personification
personification
..Her heart sank, what literary device is this?
Out of your comfortable basin and back into this madhouse!”
what literarry/stylistic device is this?
personification
“I do beseech you that by your virtuous means i may again exist, and be member of his love whom I, with all the office of my heart Entirely honor. I would not be delayed. (Act 3, scene 4 Line 105-114)
What literary device is being used here?
What doe this mean “The wind sang softly to the trees at dusk. We knew we had to get home.”
Which device does gold-geared fall under
Heaving mountain in the sea,
Whale, I hear you
Grieving.
What literary device is “Heaving mountain”?
what literary device is- He let his voice trail away
Diction
what kind of literary device is “If you want love, you gon’ have to go through the pain.”
which literary device is this
“He was almost a stranger in town”
“Hate and I shook hands, and I said I was sorry” what is the literary meaning for that?
Personification as hate is given the quality of being someone shaking hands
You might have to crawl even after you walk- whats this literary device?
A Style is best defined as the— . What is the answer to this
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
which literary device is this?
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
It is giving
anthropomorphism
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