Figurative language is language that has meaning beyond the literal meaning. An example of a simile can be found in the last paragraph of page eight. The surrounding streets on the night of Mr. Utterson’s and Hyde’s meeting are “as clean as a ball-room floor”. The purpose of the simile is to compare the cleanliness of the streets to a floor of a ball-room. This means that the streets were pure and untouched. The clean streets help set the mood for the first meeting of Mr. Utterson and Hyde. For their first encounter, the streets are clean and quiet, representing the blank state of their relationship.
Great insight? But was their slate really blank? Afterall, Utterson had heard about Hyde from his friend. So had he already sort of had an idea of who Hyde was.
ReplyDeleteI like how you point out how it shoes the emptiness of their relationship as well. Nice inferencing. No problems here accept maybe put the page where you got your quote.
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