To Kill a Mockingbird

What are some literary devices in chapters 19-21 of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Any kind of literary devices work.

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Simile- Chapter 20

"... a lie as black as Tom Robinson's skin."

Allusion- Chapter 20

"... a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein."

Metaphor- Chapter 21

Miss Alexandra’ll absolutely have a stroke of paralysis when she finds out!

Idiom- Chapter 21

Calpurnia marched us home: “—skin every one of you alive, the very idea, you children listenin‘ to all that! Mister Jem, don’t you know better’n to take your little sister to that trial?

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To Kill a Mockingbird