In regards to her children, Mrs. Bowles says, "I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it's not bad at all. You heave them into the ‘parlor' and turn the switch. It's just like washing clothes"(Bradbury 96). This is an example of what kind of figurative language?

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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faith or loyalty when pledged in a solemn agreement or undertaking.

in the quotation from passage, connie willis states that literature is a way for authors from the past to communicate with readers of today. we can read their stories, books, and other texts to learn lessons about life. willis refers to these lessons as messages “from beyond the grave.” willis has a favorable viewpoint about the timelessness of literature.