Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote Frankenstein during the Romantic era, when figurative language was commonly used. Figurative language uses devices like metaphor, simile, personification, and hyperbole to describe things in vivid, imaginative ways. The document provides examples of alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, personification, simile, and hyperbole that Shelley employed in her novel Frankenstein.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote Frankenstein during the Romantic era, when figurative language was commonly used. Figurative language uses devices like metaphor, simile, personification, and hyperbole to describe things in vivid, imaginative ways. The document provides examples of alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, personification, simile, and hyperbole that Shelley employed in her novel Frankenstein.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote Frankenstein during the Romantic era, when figurative language was commonly used. Figurative language uses devices like metaphor, simile, personification, and hyperbole to describe things in vivid, imaginative ways. The document provides examples of alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, personification, simile, and hyperbole that Shelley employed in her novel Frankenstein.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of the novel “Frankenstein: A modern Prometheus”,
wrote during what is known to many as the romantic era of history. This is a time when the arts and philosophy thrived. Like many authors, Shelley was very descriptive and figurative in the way that she wrote her novels. This type of language is known as figurative language.
Here are some examples of the way that Shelly utilized figurative language in Frankenstein: