Examples Of Figurative Language In Walden

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In the short story "Walden" the other uses different English techniques to describe the purpose behind the story. The author uses ones like figurative language, different tones, and the language that he uses. Although he does use those a lot, you really have to look for them as if it were a secret message. When authors do this it is because they want you to understand the meaning of the story from their point of view,

One of the devices he uses in "Walden" were figurative language. Examples on how authors do that is through giving things that aren't alive the characteristics as if they were alive. In one of the sentences that he writes about he says "life ran into the corner." Life doesn't actually have life. It can't do things that a real

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