Figurative Language

Toby manipulated the people in his life as though they were chess pieces.

The burning wood hissed and crackled.

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"She was living her life in chains." What do the chains represent?

"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary;"

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"Montag stopped eating… he saw the neighbor's Cheshire cat smiles burning through the walls of the house."

"When she saw the dove soar high above her home, she knew the worst was over." What does the dove represent?

"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

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the attitude that an author takes toward a work and mood is effects produced in the reader.

to convince an audience of the author's credibility or character.

"I'm all ears"

The detective listened to her tales with a wooden face.

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An appeal to the emotions of the audience, whether fear, sadness, disgust, or hope.

The light on the site did not let him see the sight.

The sorry engine wheezed its death cough.

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"I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I’ll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry"

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness"

Justice is blind and, at times, deaf.

"But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour... Nevermore."

I can smell pizza from a mile a way.

Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army of children.

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