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Description:
Lines 65–67 ("In the purely…motor oil") contain examples of
Transcript
- 00:05
Okay A couple of lines for you here sixty five
- 00:07
to sixty seven contain examples of what So let's go
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mumble in a purely feminine aquifers of sorority life one
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of her biographers wrote The eternally tomboys leave flowed like
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a drop of motor oil So there's a great example
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of metaphor instantly poor little harper lee floating around like
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an isolated oil bubble in the water climbing trees and
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smashing baseball's while her sorority sisters painted their toenails pink
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and you know had tea parties with pinky up Use
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of imagery like that in a comparison is a metaphor
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when the writer says x is why and a simile
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when the writer says is like why Well an illusion
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in a reference to some outside book song story or
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whatever else and cynic dicky is when a part of
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something is used to represent the whole like calling a
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car wheels or calling a whole portion of an orchestra
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Strings eh Repetition is well repetition Muthana me literally means
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substitute name like when a statement from the president has
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called a statement from the white house all right to
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get rid of the understatement like repetition is just what
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it sounds like Understanding something in order to make a
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point And ana ma tapia's award for a sound that
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sounds like the sound like boo hiss bang out and
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finally parallel syntax is one Multiple sentences or clauses are
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structure the same way and dennett tae shin or d
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notation is the opposite of a lot of these other
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terms and that it means using a word in its
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strictest literal sense like he would have you do to 00:01:31.824 --> [endTime] the right answer here it's eats metaphor and simile
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