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AP English Language and Composition 10.9 Passage Drill. What figure of speech is this phrase an example of?
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by flowery language the
- 00:08
only problem being that well it attracts a lot of bees get out of here all right [Flowers coming out man's mouth]
- 00:14
first check out the passage right there
- 00:26
yeah we done skimming yeah alright we say we're done we're done the phrase we
- 00:32
are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam shovel is an example of what figure of
Full Transcript
- 00:37
speech and here the pendulum sorry simile allegory mixed metaphor analogy [Answers appear]
- 00:42
reductio ad absurdum alright ah figurative language where would our
- 00:46
middle school love letters be without it here the authors using it for rhetorical [Girl holding love letters]
- 00:51
impact he's comparing the abusive way we treat nature to remodeling alhambra
- 00:56
palace with a steam shovel tapestries and heavy machinery leads don't really
- 01:02
move now assembly is a comparison using like or as..as in watching two and a [Man with eyes wide open]
- 01:09
half men is like physical torture but there's no like or as here and an
- 01:15
allegory is a lengthy comparison that can last an entire story like how alison
- 01:20
wonderland is an allegory for politics or opium abuses and while the authors
- 01:27
comparison is a metaphor he's not mixing them that's like when you say wake up [Mixed metaphor definition appears]
- 01:32
and hear the music or we're in hot water finally reductio ad absurdum is when you [Man in hot tub with radio]
- 01:39
approve an argument false as it would lead to a ridiculous extreme like if we
- 01:44
say yeah the earth cannot be flat otherwise we would find people falling [Man lecturing about flat earth]
- 01:48
off the edge instead what we've got is a comparison designed to highlight how
- 01:53
we're mistreating nature which is an analogy saudi is correct see you're just
- 01:58
as witty and shining as a summer flower in a bed full of the shining light bulbs [A rose appears with light bulbs]
- 02:03
you know what will leave the flowery language to the poets
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