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The use of comparing two things without using like or as.

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The comparison of two or more things.

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visually descriptive of what you are talking about.

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the area was windy, cold, and it looked as if a white blanket fell upon it.

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"We went to work as usual and loaded the heavy stones onto the freight cars. The rations had grown smaller; that was the only change. We had risen at dawn, as we did every day. We had received our black coffee, our ration of bread."

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His face was so colorless

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"Our brains a whirlwind of decaying memories."

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It shows a picture in your head without showing actual pictures of what happen so Elie had to use imagery to show what he went through.

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It described how they were losing their memories, and how they were being traumatized

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The truth was like a bad taste on his tongue.

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"We were walking slowly, as one follows a hearse, our own funeral procession."

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A simile creates an image between two things to make the complete point. In this case Elie describes their walking as a slow kind of depressed walk by including, " ...as one follows a hearse..."

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A person. animal, or object regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing.

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The leaves danced their way through the lawn.

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"Like a sword, the order cut through the air."

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Elie uses personification to describe the impact of only a couple words.

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A exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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The bread and the soup was my whole life