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Ewell was giggling, grinning, cocking his head off to the side like a huge parrot, chortling." 

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He looked like a pop-eyed bird who had just swallowed something large and sticky and triangular

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"He looked like a pop-eyed bird who had just swallowed something large and sticky and triangular." (52-53)

This simile produces a humorous response from the reader as they picture the British officer trying to talk with Longstreet.

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Dashilla Ehrdagun 4.0

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"Reynolds lay in the dirt road, the aides bending over him. When Buford got there the thick stain had already puddled the dirt beneath his head. His eyes were open, half asleep, his face pleasant and composed, a soft smile. Buford knelt. He was dead. An aide, a young sergeant, was crying. Buford backed away. They put a blanket over him."

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"He rode into the dark of the woods and dismounted. He crawled upward on his belly over cool rocks out into the sunlight, and suddenly he was in the open and he could see for miles, and there was the whole vast army below him, filling the valley like a smoking river." pg. 3
This quote uses words such as "cool" and "dark". It also includes a simile, "Filling the valley like a smoking river" which enhances the quote's effect on the reader.

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Chapter 1 "The Spy" Pg 8. " 'I smelled it out.' The spy grinned, foxlike, toothy."  In this excerpt from Killer Angels, the spy is speaking of what he had done for the Confederates, saying he had 'smelled out' the Union soldiers. This describes what the spy was doing as he spoke, implying his personality via the word choice of Michael Shaara.

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"Ewell was giggling, grinning, cocking his head off to the side like a huge parrot, chortling." Pg.137
It shows how Ewell is care free and doesn't draw attention to the fact that he was just shot in the leg. The figurative language backs up how Lee already sees and feels about Ewell, disappointment. Ewell has disobeyed Lee, not taking the hill, but then he walks into headquarters finding Ewell goofing off and relaxing. This reinforces Lee's feelings of disappointment and brings on new feelings of mistrust.

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"Moving in together like two waves meeting in a great ocean, like two avalanches coming down together down facing sides of a green mountain. The day had dawned clear, but now there were clouds beginning to patch the sky with hazy blots of white, and not even any motion there, just the white silence against the blue."
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"Down the valley the fields were open and still, the breeze had slowed, there was no movement of smoke. A few cows grazed in the shade, rested in dark pools of shade under the trees. Fremantle could feel the presence of that vast army; he knew it was there, thousands of men, thousands of horses, miles of canon, miles of steel."

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page 73 "There was fog flat and low in the treetops, like a soft roof"
page 17 "He awoke to a murderous sun"
page 161 "They rode down to the right, along the spine of the ridge"

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"...the stone wall was aflame from one end to the other, too much smoke, couldn't see.... Piled-up bodies in front of you to catch the bullets, using the dead for a shield; remember the sound? Like a shot into a rotten leg... All a man is: wet leg of blood. Remember the flap of a torn curtain in a blasted window, fragment-whispering in that awful breeze.... And yet, I was never so alive." (Shaara 118)
In this excerpt, the figurative language produces horrific imagery - it causes the reader to wonder how Chamberlain can witness all of these awful things and still have an appreciation for life in the military.

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"The vision was brutally clear: he had to wonder at the clarity of it. Few things in a soldier's life were so clear as this, so black-line etched that he could actually see the blue troops for one long bloody moment, going up the long slope to the stony top as if it were already done and a memory already, an odd, set, stony quality to it, as if tomorrow had occurred and there was nothing you could do about it, the way you sometimes feel before a foolish attack, knowing it will fail but you cannot stop it or even run away but must even take part and help it fail. But never this clearly. There was always some hope. Never this detail. But if we withdraw-there is no good ground south of here. This is the place to fight. " Page 40 Buford.

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pg. 3 Ch. 1: The Spy
"there was the whole vast army below him, filling the valley like a smoking river."

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"There were moments in smoke when he could not see and thought the line was going; one time when a shell burst very close and left him deaf and still and floating, like a bloody cloud." (91)