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Figurative Language

I need 45 examples of figurtave language, 3 every 2 chapters.  Any help at all will be greatly appreciated forever!
Posted by kc h #62616 at Aug 13, 2008 11:00 PM || Report this post || Reply

Take a look at this quote from page 11:
Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.  In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square.  Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.  Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning.  Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

"The streets turned to red slop" is a metaphor... 
"Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning"  is a metaphor
"Ladies ... were like soft teacakes" is a simile
Posted by ingrid h #62725 at Aug 18, 2008 12:48 AM || Report this post || Reply

Maudie's comment to Mrs. Merriweather, "His (Atticus's) food doesn't stick going down, does it?" is an idiom of some kind, although I have never been able to figure out exactly what that means or where it comes from.

Someone talks about Arthur Radley (I think)  living "on the bounty of the county."  Just some word play. 

"Morphodite" is a malapropism.

Mrs. Merriweather (or another of the tea ladies) says "I just couldn't get it into that wool of hers . . ." referring to the head of her servant girl.

Atticus tells Mrs. Dubose, "You look like a picture this evening." 
Posted by coco s #17435 at Aug 18, 2008 10:57 AM || Report this post || Reply

Thank you both so very much, your help is greatly appreciated!
Posted by kc h #62616 at Aug 18, 2008 8:15 PM || Report this post || Reply

need figurative language examples for chapter 15 asap
Posted by ashlie w #109725 at Oct 25, 2009 3:27 PM || Report this post || Reply

 

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