Across Five Aprils

Figurative language for Across Five Aprils

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Example of Metaphor:

“He’s like a man standin’ where two roads meet, Jeth … and one road is as dark and fearsome as the other; there ain’t a choice between the two, and yet a choice has to be made.”

Personification:

"...gold light filled the kitchen, pouring from the open fireplace and from the sparkling lamp chimney. Black shadows hung in the adjoining room where the bed had been spread..." (pg.28)

Imagery:

"They loaded the dimmed wagon a in cold sad darkness the next morning. There were ripped canvas sacks of corn. Some to be ground for home use, some sold outright to pay for the deep coffee and sugar, nails, axe-handle, and tobacco that Jenny had written on a list. A few chickens lay in the wagon bed, too, their feet tied together. These Jethro was to trade for calico and thread for Jenny, and mittens for himself, if there was change due him It was to cold and gloomy to think."

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