Patience & unforgiving hair!
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I can't understand the meaning of this sentence: "I can feel that patience of yours come rolling out at me from every ripple of your unforgiving hair, from your fierce wrists and tense blouse."
Especially these phrases: unforgiving hair, fierce wrists, tense blouse. It's a sentence from a story by Steven Milhauser. Could you please help me?
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anonymous Especially these phrases: unforgiving hair, fierce wrists, tense blouse. He employs a form of hypallage, a figure of speech in which a trait is applied to the wrong thing. It is the lady who is unforgiving, fierce and tense, not her body parts and clothing, and we are expected to easily know that.
- anonymous Especially these phrases: unforgiving hair, fierce wrists, tense blouse.
- He employs a form of hypallage, a figure of speech in which a trait is applied to the wrong thing.
- It is the lady who is unforgiving, fierce and tense, not her body parts and clothing, and we are expected to easily know that.
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anonymousEspecially these phrases: unforgiving hair, fierce wrists, tense blouse.
He employs a form of hypallage, a figure of speech in which a trait is applied to the wrong thing. It is the lady who is unforgiving, fierce and tense, not her body parts and clothing, and we are expected to easily know that.
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