Figures of Speech in the Waste Land
Some figures of speech in the wasteland Figures of speech comprise two main categories. One category twists the meaning of words to wrest a new non-literal meaning from words that, when phrased together, have a very different literal meaning, as in the idiomatic figure of speech, “He died from laughter. ” Literally, this means a man met his demise due to laughter. Figuratively (i. e. […]