Figurative Language: The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

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Simile Essay “The Most Dangerous Game” has a lot of figurative language. The author uses a lot of similes in the text. Richard Connell (author) uses similes to show how and animal are treated and how an animal's feels when it's being hunted. This adds more emotion in the story, it makes the reader have emotion since he usually compares humans with inanimate objects. Therefore this essay will analyze three examples when he uses similes and his purpose for it. First quote from the story is “He is a tall man past middle age for his hair was a vivid white; but his thick eyebrows and pointed military mustache were as black as the night he came from” page two, part two, paragraph five, this was what Rainsford was thinking, the figurative language

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