Practice answer

“If a man’s home is his castle, a teenager’s bedroom is her showroom”

In this text, metaphors are the main language feature used to help understand teenage bedrooms and the ideas surrounding it. Bedrooms change over the years as we grow and get older and more mature. They also change over generations and gain big differences along the way. Bedrooms are places for people to be themselves. The reason they change so much over time is because they are suited and fitted to the person it belongs to. Nowadays, bedrooms of teenagers are a more private space than those bedrooms of teenagers from the seventies. Social media has taken control of how these rooms are used and how they can become more than just a place to sleep. Teenagers can manage their own personal lives in the safety of their own room now but in the sixties and seventies, the telephone would be outside of their room and they would most likely have an adult presence while making calls about their personal life. “If a man’s home is his castle, a teenager’s bedroom is her showroom”. Focusing on the first portion of this quote, it is shown to be comparing a teenage bedroom to a castle. The word castle has been used as a metaphor during this quote as it is a personal place that no one can get into. This relates back to the text because

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