In Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Goines tries to show the reader, in a satirical way, that some small issues are better left “asleep”. He uses imagery (irony and mockery for example), which is a figurative language, to describe and attack the bureaucracy of the United States government and ridicules the drafting system.
He uses satire as a literary device to speak about a complex subject in a more understandable way, putting out the idea of a sleeping dog which, at first, seems to be harmless because it is asleep, but then turns into a very big and dangerous problem when it is awaken.
Parables were commonplace in Chaucer's time, and audiences would have found them familiar.
Parables resembled the teachings of Jesus, with which most audiences in Chaucer's time were familiar.
Answer:
Imagery.
Explanation:
Imagery is a literary device that refers to using figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. In this case, the words read by Annie made her feel as if she was actually tasting the food
<span>The epigrams from the Oscar Wilde’s play “The
Importance of being Earnest” are first and last statement. Epigram is a brief, satiric,
memorable statement which expresses an idea in an amusing way. Oscar Wild used
epigrams to expose the hypocrisy of upper class from Victorian era. In the first
statement ( "In married life three is company and two is none." (Algernon))
Wilde alludes that marriage is a business deal containing property, wealth, and
status. In the last statement (“More than half of modern culture depends on
what one shouldn’t read.”) Wilde makes fun of the whole Victorian idea of
morality, strict codes of what people should and shouldn’t do.</span>
