LITERATURA INGLESA DEL SIGLO XX

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Practical Work 1: Modernist Portraits
Literatura Inglesa del Siglo XX
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
MARK: 8 (eight)

TASK:

 Complete this paper after reading the notes and watching the tutorial
video.
 Decide whether they are examples of: Personification, Oxymoron,
Alliteration, Hyperbole, Irony, Representations, Simile, or Metaphor.

1. “Cut off in the flower of his youth”

Metaphor

2. "It seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind"

Simile

3. “Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,

anything, from nothing first create,
heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms,

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 Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!”

Oxymoron

4. “The soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping…”

Alliteration Personification

5. “To her last day remained a terror to all her descendants”

Hyperbole