Although this text speaks of factual events and situations of misery it transforms these situations with an almost poetical prose into a literary experience. How does it do so? Here are some literary devices:
Hyperbole is a way of speaking or writing that makes something sound better or more exciting than it really is. For example: Garbage to them is gold.
A Metaphor, as you may know, compares two things or ideas that are not very similar. A metaphor describes a thing in terms of a single quality or feature of some other thing, we can say that a metaphor "transfers" a quality of one thing to another. For example: The road was a ribbon of light.
Simile is a word or phrase that compares one thing with another using the words "like" or "as". For example: As white as snow.
Carefully read the following phrases and sentences taken from the text. Can you identify the literary device in each example?
6. She still has bangles on her wrist, but not light in her eyes.