The Scarlet Ibis

Identify one form of figurative language used by Hurst in the 1st paragraph?

copy the lines where this figurative language is found

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The five o'clocks by the chimney still marked time, but the oriole nest in the elm was untenanted and rocked back and forth like an empty cradle.

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The Scarlet Ibis

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