Tuesday, 1 July 2008

Please identify examples of figurative language in A Raisin in the Sun.

The
dialogue in uses numerous figures of speech that are commonly found in
everyday speech.incorporates this type of figurative language to make theseem to be real people.
Metaphors are frequently employed. , for example, refers to s friends as clowns because of
their loud behavior. To indicate that she would like a more comfortable life, she uses theof
Buckingham Palace for a luxurious home she would prefer. Walter uses the metaphor of choking
to death to describe his feelings of being held back in his life. When Mama talks to Ruth about
Walters idea of the liquor store, she rejects the concept of selling liquor as immoral, saying
I dont want that on my ledger. Similes also appear in their speech. Mama combines one with
anandwhen she says that yesterday she had seen a cockroach marching€¦ like Napoleon.


Ruth also uses, extreme exaggeration, when she...

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