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Definition of Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. The comparison in a metaphor can be stated explicitly, as... read full definition
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. The comparison in a metaphor... read full definition
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other... read full definition
Chapter 19
Explanation and Analysis—In the Crowd:
As they are searching for Shmuel’s father in the camp, Bruno and Shmuel are accidentally swept up in a line of marching prisoners being herded into the gas chambers. The narrator employs tactile imagery and metaphor to immerse the reader in Bruno’s overwhelming physical experience of this horrible moment:
Bruno closed his eyes for a moment and felt it wash over him. When he opened them again he wasn't so much marching as being swept along by the group of people, and all he could feel was the mud that was caked all over his body and his pyjamas clinging to his skin with all the rain and he longed to be back in his house, watching all this from a distance and not wrapped up in the centre of it.
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