Discuss The Use Of Metaphors In Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens uses literary devices as a way to communicate and form a closer relationship with his readers. He has placed many metaphors throughout the book to show how they can elevate a reading by using metaphors for descriptions, to entitle a chapter, and to compare two things. In the first chapter of the book Charles Dickens describes the queens of England and France in a belittling way. He believed that they had “the plain and the fair faces,” and that they had no special qualities to make them the important figures that they were (Dickens 10). In this context, he metaphorically described how he felt about the queens. He also used the idea of metaphors to entitle his chapters, like he did with Chapter XXI of Book The Second. He used

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