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?
7. Few airplanes fly over Firozabad.

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? 8. Web of poverty.

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? 9. Scrounging for gold.

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? 2. Drowned in an air of desolation.

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? 3. Seemapuri, a place on the periphery of Delhi yet miles away from it, metaphorically.

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? 1. Saheb-e-Alam which means the lord of the universe is directly in contrast to what Saheb is in reality.

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? 4. For the children it is wrapped in wonder, for the elders it is a means of survival.

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.

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? 10. And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art.

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? 5. As her hands move mechanically like the tongs of a machine, I wonder if she knows the sanctity of the bangles she helps make.

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? 11. The steel canister seems heavier than the plastic bag he would carry so lightly over his shoulder