The Fish Figurative Language

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“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop uses fully with imagery and figurative languages to describe her poetry. Bishop gives deep detail by using imagery for the reader to vision clearly how the fish looks like. In the begging Bishop say, “tremendous” Line 1. “He didn’t fight. He didn’t fought at all” Line 5-6. Bishop didn’t say she caught old tired fish. Instead she clarify the fish isn’t a fighter. That must be old fish. Because even a tiny baby fish isn’t that easy to pull out from the water without struggling.

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