To Kill A Mockingbird Similes

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The language on page 14 of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ plays a big part in influencing the reader’s view of the Radley Place. For example the adjectives used, such as “rain-rotten” and “sharp curve”, all give the same impression of the place, and suggest a dark setting. They also all connote sadness and horror which reflects well on the rumours that Scout and Jem have made up and bewitched Dill with. When Harper Lee states that “the Radley Place fascinated Dill”, she uses a simile and describes Dill as the tide and the Radley Place as the moon; “…it drew him as the moon draws water”. The simile has a large effect because the moon draws the tide in like the Radley Place draws in Dill. Also, the moon is very dominant in the sky and a mystery, and

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