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.
