ENGL1021 unit 5 Short Stories II Legends and Myths

allegory

When a metaphor, one image to represent a very different, unrelated idea, is extended throughout the length and breadth of a literary work

personification

“many of the stories the mountain had seen.”

“There is a legend about this mountain once told by the mountain itself.”

“The mountain saw the boy encroaching and whispered a warning to the wind sweeping strongly down its face as it remembered a similar event long ago.”

coordinate adjectives

• can be arranged in any order and

• can be separated by the word and without changing the meaning of the sentence.

cumulative adjectives

modifies the word that follows it. You cannot change their order, nor can you insert and between them.