What are some examples of figurative language that Ellison uses?

“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook… it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass… indeed everything and anything except me.” Page 3

"their fists testing the smoke-filled air like the knobbed feelers of hypersensitive snails." Page 23

Eliison juxtaposes literal and figurative language, this language gives the novel a dream like quality, all while creating intensely vivd images.

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