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For example, in para. 3 the metaphor of comparing the houses there to pigs wallowing in the mud~ the metaphor in the same para. of comparing the patches of paint to dried up scales formed by a skin disease~

and the simile in para. 2 as shown in the sentence \blinks ... shot away\as shown in the sentence \steel stadi um ~ -- the line\just to mention a few. Hyperboles are profusely used in the essay. They are mostly very effective in conveying what the author had to say.

In para. 1, we read the sentence \alley cats\exaggerating the richness and grandeur of this region and of America as a whole, the boast and pride of the richest and grandest nation ever seen on earth

in para. 5 we read \implies exaggeratedly that it is as if some genius of great power, who didn' t like to do the right things and who was an inflexible enemy of man, em ployed all the cleverness and skill of hell to build these ugly houses;

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and again in para. 2 there is the sentence \al lude to \hard to believe. Not every house could have been that ugly.

Lesson 6 Mark Twain --- Mirror of America Metaphor:

Mark Twain --- Mirror of America

saw clearly ahead a black wall of night...

main artery of transportation in the young nation's heart

All would resurface in his books...that he soaked up... When railroads began drying up the demand... ...the epidemic of gold and silver fever... Twain began digging his way to regional fame... Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles... Simile:

Most American remember M. T. as the father of... ...a memory that seemed phonographic Hyperbole:

...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...

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The cast of characters... - a cosmos. America laughed with him. Personification:

...to literature's enduring gratitude... the grave world smiles as usual... Bitterness fed on the man... America laughed with him.

Personal tragedy haunted his entire life. Antithesis:

...between what people claim to be and what they really are..

...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land... ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever Euphemism:

… a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy. ...men's final release from earthly struggle Alliteration

...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home

...with a dash and daring...

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...a recklessness of cost or consequences... Metonymy

...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe Lesson 7 Everyday Use for your grandmama “Maggie’s brain is like an elephant’s”. Wangero said ,laughing .(ironic)

“Mama,” Wangero said sweet as a bird .“can I have these old quilts?”(simile)

…showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse…

After I tripped over it two or three times he told me …(metaphor)

And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (exaggeration)

Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. (simile)

Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car ,sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him?(metaphor)

I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out .(exaggeration)

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Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. (simile)

It is like an extended living room. (simile) Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.

My skin is like an uncooked barley pancake. (simile) She gasped like a bee had stung her.(simile) Wangero said, sweet as a bird. (simile)

Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? (rhetorical question)

You didn’t even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood .(metaphor)

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