Figurative Language In The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow

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Authors use figurative language to add detail to the story. One example of literature that uses figurative language is The Outsiders. The dramatic short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, by Washington Irving uses many types of figurative language. To begin, one example of figurative language is an idiom. In the exposition, Ichabod’s teaching methods are described by the narrator to the reader, “Spare the rod and spoil the child” (155). If a teacher does not discipline a child, that child will become a disrespectful, ungrateful brat. Ichabod, as a school master, wants respect so his student learn; if the students are learning, the parents will give him a place to stay and food to eat. Therefore, the idiom is used to reveal Ichabod’s

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