The statement, "The fabric was as pleasant to the touch as ice cream is to the tongue," analogy is comparing touching the fabric to eating the ice cream. The statement means they both are very pleasant and nice. Touching the fabric and eating the ice cream gives the person pleasure.
Answer:
The bottle fizzed then popped.
Explanation:
Onamatopoeia is the formation of the word from a sound associated with what is named. For example, fizzed and popped are examples of onamatopoeia.
Answer:
A. Churchill's lack of enthusiasm makes it seem as if he is uninterested in the outcome of the war.
Explanation:
The poem "The Cloud" by Percy Bysshe Shelley employs an extended metaphor, as it compares a cloud to life throughout the whole poem.
The cloud is meant to stand for the cycle of nature, or the unending cycle of life. Through the many cycles and transformations that the cloud endures, Shelley wants to represent the never ending cycle of birth, death and rebirth that all beings on Earth go through. The poem, therefore, focuses on the mutability of nature as the only constant in the physical world. Moreover, this allows the author to also employ the cloud as a symbol of the many changes that humans undergo throughout their lives.
<u>Answer:</u>
- the economic use of language
- a precise image conveyed through an unexpected metaphor
<u>Explanation:</u>
'In a Station of the Metro' is a very precise poem by Ezra Pound which exhibits the characteristics of modernist poetry that include:
- the economic use of language
- a precise image conveyed through an unexpected metaphor
The poet has tried to convey his message in minimum words (merely two lines) by using the metaphorical approach where he has linked the faces in the crowd to the wet, fallen flower petals on a bough.
