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"In a metaphor, a word or expression that in literal usage denotes one kind of thing is applied to a distinctly different kind of thing, without asserting a comparison." (Abrams, M. H., 1999, p. 97)

"A figure of speech in
which one thing is described in terms of another." (Cuddon, J. A., 2013, p. 449)

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"I mean, Mr. Grey had been a presence in our lives, part of the scenery,part of the house—like the furniture." (Cormier, 1997, p. 82)

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"We have placed our life in his
hands, Adam. We have to trust him. In a way, he’s our creator." (p.114)
“So our hands were tied, Adam. That’s what I mean about Grey—he rules our lives.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 114)

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"The impersonation of some quality or abstraction; the atribution of human qualities to inanimate objects." (Cuddon, J. A., 2013, p. 529)

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"A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another, in such a way as to clarify and enhance and image. It is an explicit comparison (as opposed to metaphor, q.v., where the comparison is implicit) recognizable by the use of words 'like' ir 'as'. " (Cuddon, J. A., 2013, p. 657)

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"Imagery as a general term covers the use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, state of mind and any sensory and extra-sensory experience." (Cuddon, J. A., 2013, p. 354)

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“He looked like a lion tamer in a movie.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 33)

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"And I stand there isolated by myself on a small invisible island, and I look at the spot where my bike was." (Cormier, 1997, p.101)

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"He draws the bike close to him
as if it’s a shield." (Cormier, 1997, p. 121)

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"The rain dances on the ground, the way water jumps and leaps if you drop it on a hot stove." (Cormier, 1997, p.47)

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“This time the car brushes me. I feel the wind, like a monster’s foul

breath, and I feel the contact of metal and a whine as the metal strikes my bike.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 73)

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"A rumble of thunder answers me—the gods are listening." (Cormier, 1997, p. 47-48)

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"But there was something—gray about him. His hair was gray. But more than that: to me, gray is a nothing color and that’s how Mr. Grey seemed to me. Like nothing.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 82)

"My father always seemed the

stronger one. As if he was a bright color and she was a faded

color. I know it sounds crazy.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 112)

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He sensed a poem lurking in the words and wanted to scribble them
down. (Cormier, 1997, p. 41)

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“I was always aware of two smells, my mother’s perfume and the way my father always smelled of tobacco or smoke or the matches. But after that night, after the bus trip, I don’t associate my father with cigarettes anymore. Because my father doesn’t smoke. I’ve never seen him smoke a cigarette. But my mother’s perfume was the same.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 15)

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“(...) the instrument [the telephone] was cool to his touch, and the coolness established reality, the reality of what he was about to do: eavesdrop on his mother” (Cormier, 1997, p. 57)

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"It is an object, animate or inanimate, which represents or 'stands for' something else" (Cuddon, J. A., 2013, p. 699)

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“My heart is threatening to explode in my chest and my lungs scream with pain—I realize that I have been holding my breath—but I look him in the eye.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 63)

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“I heard the phone ring but I didn’t bother answering it although there was an extension in the room. I sat there, as if in a trance.” (Cormier, 1997, p. 86)

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The keys of the keyboard yell every time they are pushed down.

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Coronavirus is an invisible monster that threatens me.

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During a virtual class, each minute feels like an hour.

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My house became an open book overnight and everybody is allowed to read it or even comment on it. 'Is that your husband behind you?' 'Have you changed the curtains?'

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The smell of bleach penetrates my nose, invades my lungs every time I come back from the supermarket.

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Students are like spies

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"Inside, the smell of lilac fills the hallway as usual. Dr. Dupont tries
to keep the place homelike." (Cormier, 1997, p.148)

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"The bike was waiting in the garage and that’s how I wanted to go. By bike, by my own strength and power. For my father." (Cormier, 1997, p.10)

"I thought of my father and I started pedaling away, and I gained momentum and knew I would go, nothing would stop me, nothing." (Cormier, 1997, p. 11)

"The car brushes by and hands reach out for me, pushing, grabbing,
and I lose my balance, the bike wavers under me and heads for the
ditch, the steep ravine by the side of the road, and I am helpless" (Cormier, 1997, p. 74)

“I am on the bike now, sailing, sailing, down the street, on the wrong side of the street and with no lights on the bike, but I am going, going” (Cormier, 1997, p. 122)

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"As I approach, the dog steps out into the road and I think, It’s as if
he has been waiting for me all my life." (Cormier, 1997, p. 26)

"The bike is in danger of toppling now as the dog continues to attack
the front wheel and I realize with horror that this has been his
intention from the beginning: to topple the bike, send it askew and
have me crashing to the roadway, his victim." (Cormier, 1997, p. 27)

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Abrams, M. H. (1999). A Glossary of Literary Terms (7th ed.). Boston, Massachusetts: Heinle &Heinle.

Cuddon, J. A. (2013). A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (5th ed.). Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.

Cormier, R. (1977). I am the Cheese. New York: Dell Laurel-Leaf.

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Hidden behind the clouds, the sun expects not to catch the virus.

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The bars of the window look as if they were bars of a prison.

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Reality comes into my house through the skylight.