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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.
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.
What literary devices are used by modern European literature?