What literary technique is this most portraying?

Question

"As the wine-connoisseur movie Sideways tells us, it is the kiss of decay and mortality that makes grape juice into Pinot Noir." Is this using metaphor, humor, apostrophe, alliteration, or a synecdoche?

Answer 1

this is a metaphor since it doesn't use the words, "like" or "as."
Take it from the two time English Literature Award winner and Who's Who is English Lit.

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Answer 2

Rather than asking someone to do your homework for you, you'd do a lot better to learn how to do your homework! This is pretty easy stuff, so that shouldn't be too hard. First, you need to learn what these words mean ("metaphor, etc."). Here's a website that defines them. http://www.serve.com/hecht/words/fos.htm

In the future, if you're stuck, just type the word you don't know into your browser (or use a dictionary!) and find out what it means. Then all you have to do is think. The brain is a kind of muscle, and if you use it, it gets smarter! If you ask other people, you don't get smarter.

Your question does not desribe "alliteration" (repetition of the same first sound like "bim bam boom") and is certainly NOT humor ("decay"?). You can look up the others, but I'm thinking that "the kiss of decay and mortality" is what you should focus on. Is someone really kissing grapes here -- or is this kind of a figure of speech about how the aging grapes ferment (like getting old?) into wonderful wine? I think it is! What's that called? Hint: It's comparing wine fermenation to "decay and mortality" so which term means comparing one thing to another? Good luck.

Answer 3

It's not a synecdoche (where a part stands for a whole) or an apostrophe which is one of these '
It's not funny, so it's not humor. It's not an alliteration (which is a tongue-twister: she sells sea shells) So......
I'd say it's a metaphor. :-D

Answer 4

it is humor and cozy but sticking to the point, nice job!

Answer 5

like whaen the naked guy is running down the street?