To Kill a Mockingbird

Examples of metaphors used in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee?

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There are numerous examples of metaphors in To Kill a Mockingbird. Examples are included below;

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it."

"Lord, what a name." "your name's longer than you are. Bet it;s a foot longer."

"He was a thin leathery with colorless eyes, so colorless they did not reflect light."

"The old house was the same, droopy and sick, but as we stared down the street we thought we saw an inside shutter move. Flick. A tiny, almost invisible movement, and the house was still."

''Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree-house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.''

The Governor was eager to scrape a few barnacles off the ship of state....

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To Kill a Mockingbird