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Figurative Language For: To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter 8

Simile

Simile- A comparison of two unlike things that are explicitly compared. This figurative language is similar to metaphors, but has words "like" or "as". This figure of speech is used to create comparisons toward the subject and what it is being compared to.

Text Examples:

"Miss Maudie's sunhat was suspended in a thin layer of ice, like a fly in amber, and we have to dig under the dirt to find her hedge clippers."

- TKAM chapter 8

Example 2:

"...the town fire siren wailed up the scale to a treble pitch and remained there, screaming.".

The sirens can not scream.

Example 1 :

" We stood watching the street fill with men

and cars while fire silently devoured Miss Maudie's house". - page 69 // TKAM

Why figurative language?

Figurative Language

Literary Devices

In chapter 8 of To kill a Mockingbird the author uses imagery by saying words that can help you imagine the event in your head. For example on page 69 it says, "the hose burst and water shot up, tinkling on the pavement."

Figurative language gives a way to read the text in a way to create an understanding of the text. Simile, metaphors, allusions, personification, and hyperbole are examples of figurative language.

Figurative (or non-literal) language can be defined as a deliberate departure from the conventional meaning, order, or construction of words in order to achieve a more complicated understanding or heightened effect.

This helps to show how the author can use literary devices to help a reader form a picture in there mind

and help them understand the situation in the book. The picture is formed from the author using words like "burst" and

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