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Figurative Language In Treasure Of Lemon Brown By Walter Dean Myers

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Mark Twain once said, “The very ink in which all history is written is merely prejudice.” Tie. In the story “Lemon Brown “ by Walter Dean Myers, the author uses descriptive adjectives, to intrigue the reader into reading more and having interesting vocabulary words to make the the story better. The author uses figurative language to paint a picture into the person who who is reading this story. In the short story “Treasure of Lemon Brown” the author uses metaphors to compare a character to another character. For example on page 9 in the textbook it said “Had them big eyes like you got.” “I used to call them moon eyes.” “Look into them moon eyes and see whatever you want.” Greg was comparing who he was as a little boy to whom Lemon Brown
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