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Published: 29.03.2011.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: 2 units
References: Used
  • Research Papers 'Lexical Stylistic Devices', 1.
  • Research Papers 'Lexical Stylistic Devices', 2.
  • Research Papers 'Lexical Stylistic Devices', 3.
  • Research Papers 'Lexical Stylistic Devices', 4.
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Epithet
1.Joanna Childe was large, with light shiny hair, blue eyes and deep-pink cheeks.
[2; 12]
2.It was also permitted to entertain in the recreation room, on the terrace which led out from it, and in the drawing-room whose mud-brown walls appeared so penitential in tone at that time.[2; 27]

Metaphor
1.Why does it move my heart to see the great, slow, pale oxen?[1; 18]
2.‘I’m a chicken colonel on the winning side,’ he said.[1; 19]…

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