Answer:
Figurative language.
Explanation:
Figurative Language can be defined as a language that presents meaning different from literal meaning of any literary piece of writing.
The given line is taken from book titled 'Notes of a Native Son' written by James Baldwin. The book is an autobiographical account of Baldwin.
In the given line, Baldwin has used figurative language and not simile.
So, the correct answer is figurative language.
Answer:
The technique used by Alexander Pope in The R*pe of the Lock is mock-epic genre.
Explanation:
"The Ra-pe of the Lock" is a mock-epic (a technique used by Pope) poem written by Alexander Pope. Pope has written the verse in heroic couplets.
Pope named his poem as "an heroi-comical poem".
Mock-epic is a form of satire in which trivial matters or subjects are dealt in an elevated heroic style. <u>This dealing of the trivial matters in a heroic style creates the humor in this technique of mock-epic</u>. This genre does not mock the epics but rather the subject by giving it a form of epic.
<u>The poem deals with a true incident of trivial matter; the stolen locks of a young woman. Because of this conflict between two families started, which Pope resembled that of the war of Greeks and Trojan. </u>
Yes, people spend lots of time on it and if it was taken away, it would affect many people.
An understatement is when an author presents something as casual and unimortant when the matter at hand is actually very serious. In other words, an understatement is when an author downplays the severity of a situation.
