The literary resources walk through our everyday language.

Literary resources or literary figures are those phrases and expressions that are used to give more value and feeling to what is meant.

These are used mostly by poets and writers to give their writings a more dramatic and striking sense.

However, you don't have to be a poet to use metaphors, similes, comparisons, and hyperbole, as well as many other literary figures. In fact, we as ordinary mortals often use many of these resources in our conversations; what happens is that they become so common that it is not a process that we do so consciously unlike poets who take each of the words they choose to use in their verses very seriously so that the final result complies with certain rules of aesthetics according to his literary style.

We, on the contrary, are constantly using literary devices, but we have no idea that we are doing it. If we dedicate ourselves to analyzing each compliment, each phrase of love or even those insults or rudeness that we say daily, we will find ourselves with the surprise that those sentences are loaded with metaphors and similes, as well as other figures.

This is one of the reasons why I particularly like linguistics, because it is in charge of explaining in a technical way all those language processes that we have been doing since we are babies and we learn to speak, but that we simply do it from automatic and fluid way without stopping to think about the name given to each of these processes.

For example, when we are in love and we want to write a loving message, we simply write it without taking into account whether what we have just written is a simile, a metaphor or a hyperbole; We simply want to express through written or oral language what comes from our heart.

In fact, the expression "is born from the heart" if we analyze it in a logical way from the biological point of view, it is meaningless, because when we refer to the verb to be born we are referring to the fact or action of starting life from another living being. However, when we hear or read the expression: "these words come from my heart" we can all clearly understand that it means that they are words that come out of the depths of their being and that are full of feelings.

All these literary resources represent a great linguistic source that nourish and enrich our language, without them communication would be something very mechanical and boring because we would be speaking only in a strictly literal way without leaving a small slit for the imagination, which is what makes language is capable of provoking in the receiver a feeling of empathy or, on the contrary, antipathy for the person who transmits the message. In short, it is not just about what you want to say, but about how you say it and what reaction you want to produce in the audience.

"Language is something as wide, extensive and deep as the ocean". (Simile)

"Linguistics offers us an ocean of possibilities to express everything that our being hides". (Metaphor)

"Like the ocean is my love for linguistic". (Comparison).

Let all these incredible resources wander through our everyday speech and lodge in our conversations, giving them a different dynamism and a more interesting tint.

I loved writing this post, it allowed me to delve into my memory and remember the Linguistics classes at the University. But I must be sincere and express that, although I have a bit of English skills, I would love to publish it in my native language, because I feel that when translating it, the essence of what I want to express is lost a bit.

However, I hope you like it. Well, linguistics is an exciting subject and I would like to continue writing about it. Greetings and blessings.

My original text is written in Spanish, for this post I use Google translator.
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