Question

Calpurnia was something else again. She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard. She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn't ready to come. Our battles were epic and one-sided. Calpurnia always won, mainly because Atticus always took her side. She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember. Pick three uses of figurative language in the excerpt above and explain what they mean and how they affect the reader's impression of Calpurnia. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

The writer of the excerpt above used Metaphor, Hyperbole and Idioms. The second sentence, "She was all bones and angles" is an Idiom which indicates that Calpurnia is thin with no curves. The second figurative language used is Metaphor in which the narrator referred to Calpurnia as a "tyrant" which shows that Calpurnia is bossy towards the narrator. The third figurative languange used is Hyperbole, where the narrator exaggerated her relationship with Calpurnia as "a one-sided epic battle".