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What literary devices are used in this sentence? *See details!!!*

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Asked By: girlie88 13-15  1 year ago

“We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were determined to ignore whatever needed to be ignored, to build a new world from nothing if nothing in our world could be salvaged, it was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn’t think about my life at all.”

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    cryinginthedark - 22-25 years old - female

    Posted by cryinginthedark May 20th, 2012 at 9:23AM

    well there is only one full stop so it is creating a sence of digging deep ito something and building up suspence, or a feel for something.

    i need to think about this one more. what is this for?? is it work for a degree or something?

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  1. girlie88 - 13-15 years old

    Reply by girlie88 May 20th, 2012 at 9:27AM

    It's for an ISU/ISP. Also, it's from the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

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  2. cryinginthedark - 22-25 years old - female

    Reply by cryinginthedark May 20th, 2012 at 9:43AM

    oh OK i dont know what that would be in engand. ill have a go though... if the relationship being described is not the focus of the text then it would be called a deleted affair. I dont know the whole text but it appears to be making an analeptic reference, or referring back to something which happened at the beginning. it might be using oxymorons by stating, 'gogether and seperatly, loud and silently' ect but im not sure, you need to look up the rule for that. also look up about the lack of full stops, i cant remember what it is called though. there is some type of metaphor in ''build a new world'' it might be an extended metaphor which helps the reader to imagine something so great that it cant be described. the bit at the end about life tells me that the character was a bit of a free spirit and suggests something might have happened to change that. sorry if this is a bit low-level, i have a feeling you are working at a higher level than what i am trained to teach haha hope it helps anyway. ill let you know if i can think of anything else in there.

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  1. bsadog - 61-65 years old - male

    Posted by bsadog May 20th, 2012 at 9:20AM

    self delusion

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