The Red Badge of Courage

The torn bodies of the injured that the youth joined were part of what?

An extension of war, an extended metaphor, the juxtaposition of opposites or the clarity pf a simile?

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Sure, it is an extended metaphor of the youth being baptized by the fires of war. He is now battered himself and joins the masses of soldiers that the war disfigures both physically and emotionally.