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Figurative Language In Tuesdays With Morrie

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In Tuesdays with Morrie, Albom uses a metaphor and a hyperbole to argue that devoting yourself to loving those around you will create a life with purpose and meaning. The first example of Albom using figurative language to argue that you should devote yourself to loving others to create a purpose in your life is, "Without love, we are birds with broken wings" (Albom 92). The author shows how Morrie explains that without love we have nothing left. What can a bird do without wings? Nothing, they wouldn’t be able to fly which essentially is the purpose of birds, to fly around in the sky. And Morrie compares a bird with broken wings to humans without love, because without love we wouldn’t have a purpose, we wouldn’t have anything to live for, and
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