Figurative Language in Literature

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“The mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door without lock or key.” — Gone with the Wind

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simile

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“Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.” - Emily Dickinson

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personification

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"I was helpless. I did not know what to do. I was quaking from head to foot, and my eyes stuck out so far." - Mark Twain

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hyperbole

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Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" includes: "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea."

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alliteration

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“Mr. Neck storms into class, a bull chasing thirty-three red flags.” —Speak, Laurie Anderson

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metaphor

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Isaiah 64:8: 'But now, O Lord, You are our Father, We are the clay, and You our potter; And all of us are the work of Your hand.'

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metaphor

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“Her romantic mind was like tiny boxes from the puzzling East.” — Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie.

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simile

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"The sun was a toddler refusing to go to bed: It was past 8:30 and still light." — Fault in Our Stars, John Green

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metaphor