The simile of ravening wolves and degenerated sons
The author uses a simile to compare church followers to ravening wolves and degenerated sons. The author writes, “…these matters having been submitted to the king himself by the mediation of certain ecclesiastics, with consent of the bishop, and the king being absent in England, his parishioners, moved with anger against him because he upheld the cause of his Church against them, fell on their pious pastor like ravening wolves, on their father like degenerate sons, and on their Lord Christ like emissaries of the devil, stripped him of his clothing, stoned him, mortally wounded him with an axe, and finally killed and burned him in his own kitchen.”
The magnitude of the great mounds
A laborious effort is compared to the great mounds. The author writes, “It is difficult to realize the amount of laborious effort expended in the construction of a work like this, which does not appeal to the eye like the magnitude of the great mounds around it.”
A canopy
The simile of a canopy compares the bed in the deck to tent. The author writes, “A bed was prepared in the midst of the deck, with a tent-like canopy over it, and covered with gold-embroidered cloth. In the preparation of this bed there comes on the scene an old hag, whom they called the dead man’s angel.”
