The Jungle
Figures of Speech
what are some figures of speach that are used in the jungle please list multipul and what they mean.
what are some figures of speach that are used in the jungle please list multipul and what they mean.
Personification:
"Jurgis could see all the truth now -- could see himself, through the whole long course of events, the victim of ravenous vultures that had torn into his vitals and devoured him; of fiends that had racked and tortured him, mocking him, meantime, jeering in his face. ...And they could do nothing, they were tied hand and foot -- the law was against them, the whole machinery of society was at their oppressors' command!"
This quote personifies Jurgis' thoughts of business and government......
Personification/ Simile
"Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory."
Personification: Machines do not physically run, as they are controlled by humans.
Simile: Packingtown likened to a dungeon.
The Jungle