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Cather's House By Richard Wright: Figurative Language

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There are many great examples of figurative language in the way the author crafts his sentences in this passage. In the first sentence I like when the author, Richard Wright, uses this hyperbole: “ a pocket full of money that melted into bottomless hunger of the household”. I like how he uses this hyperbole to show how the money Richard has earned from his new job, immediately goes to pay for food for his starving family, this hyperbole really shows how desperate Richard’s family is for food. Again in the next sentence he uses a nice hyperbole with the same word but a slightly different use; “even Aunt Addies hostility melted temporarily”. The use of melted in this hyperbole is used to show how Aunt Addies hatred and hostility went away
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