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Figurative Language In Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury

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In this passage, Mildred, Montag’s wife had overdosed on sleeping pills. Once he found her, he called for help. When the technicians arrived, they hooked her up to two machines, one to pump her stomach and the other machine replaces her contaminated blood with clean blood in order to bring her back to life. A paradox found in this passage is that Mildred is alive and dead at the same time. Bradbury uses descriptive details to show how this machine was almost life-like. He describes the machine to have an eye. He uses figurative language in this passage to give the machine animal imagery. In the quote, “one of them slide down into your stomach like a black cobra” uses a simile because the machine is compared to a black cobra. The symbolism of

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