Hi everyone. I'm Jennifer from English with Jennifer. I have the ambitious goal of presenting 12 literary devices.
I can't do this in the blink of an eye, but I promise I won't be as slow as molasses.
Hopefully, by the time we're through, you'll love these wonderful, witty, yet wacky literary devices, and you'll understand which ones I just used. Let's get started.
Have you ever faced rejection? If you ask someone out on a date, and they give a polite excuse each time, "Oh, I'm going out of town." "I have family visiting." I think you're failing to read between the lines. The person isn't interested in having dinner with you.
They're not saying this directly; you just have to understand what isn't being said.
To read between the lines is an idiom. It's a figurative expression, a colorful way of speaking. Idioms are used in spoken and written English.
They're common in movies, in novels, in the news, and in conversation.
It's important to understand them, but that doesn't mean you have to learn every idiom under the sun. You also shouldn't try to use idioms in every single sentence.
That won't make your English sound more natural. Remember that some idioms are used only in a particular variety of English.
Americans don't understand every British idiom and vice versa. Also, there could be idioms that sound outdated to a younger generation.
