LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
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The snow is a white blanket.
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The familiar tang of his grandmother’s cranberry sauce reminded him of his youth.
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You were as brave as a lion.
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Detailed explanation-1: -hyperbole, and means that the snow was warm. metaphor, and means that the blanket was white like snow. simile, and means that the snow covered everything.
Detailed explanation-2: -Metaphor. The phrase means ‘Everything is or was covered with snow thick enough to hide the actual objects and their shapes like a blanket would hide the objects it was covering. ‘
Detailed explanation-3: -The sky is a blanket of stars. The sky is being used to represent a blanket of stars. This metaphor suggests that the sky is full of stars, just as a blanket would be full of fabric.
Detailed explanation-4: -Snow is a Blanket When the snow falls across a landscape and makes it all white, we’ll often use the phrase “blanketed with snow”. We don’t mean to say that the snow is literally a blanket, but rather that it seems to fall over the landscape like a blanket might if it fell from the sky.
Detailed explanation-5: -Life is a highway. Her eyes were diamonds. He is a shining star. The snow is a white blanket. She is an early bird. 12-Jan-2021