Topic 10 (session A) - Prose analysis > Bilgewater: Foregrounding > Task E

Bilgewater: Foregrounded features

Task E - sentence 64

How does semantic deviation produce metaphor in the following sentence, and how does the metaphorisation add to our understanding of the passage?

The trees lean, swinging long, black ropes at the water.

Our answer

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